Water

from Getting Started In Emergency Preparedness by Someone You Know

Welcome,

This is the second half of the blog about water. You will find videos/podcasts, instructions, and other information about the subject for this week.

Videos/Podcast:

Disaster Preparedness-Water Supply

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJ6TwGjqgA

Water in the Wilderness - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSF9BhmnQM&feature=related

Discussion on Water Filters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-zqsR2NMyQ

How to Build a Rain Barrel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGFDlkJOdaM

Rain Barrel-Three Minute Gardener

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4zoPm2Eu2Q

Instructions:

Make a Funnel out of a 2-liter Bottle:

Take a sharp knife and cut around the outside. Ta Da! You have a funnel to fill smaller containers from bigger containers.

Boiling Water with a Piece of Plastic:

Build a fire. Place rocks that you can easily lift with a forked stick or two sticks into the fire. Make sure the rocks were collected from a place that does not hold water or is covered with water. The rocks will exploded if taken from a stream, river, pond or lake. Let the rocks heat for awhile.

Next, dig a hole. Line the hole with a piece of plastic. Fill the hole with water that has been allowed to settle. Take the rocks out of the fire with the sticks. Be careful, the rocks are Hot!

Place rocks in the water, and step back real quick. Once the rumbling has stopped the water should be boiling hot.

Make sure the hot rocks do not touch the plastic sticking out of the water. It will melt the plastic. The reason the hot rock doesn't melt the plastic, below the waterline, is because the boiling water keeps the rock off the plastic until it has cooled.

Other Information:

Alpha Rubicon has an article on making a Home-Made Berkey Water Filter by Daire. It is a variation of the gravity filter; I talked about in Week Four-Water. The article can be viewed at http://www.alpharubicon.com/kids/homemadeberkeydaire.htm

Daire's pictures are excellent. Notice the nuts to hold the filters tight while the filters are still laying on the bucket lids. One change I would make, would be to put two blocks of wood between the upper and lower buckets. I would do this because I don't want the nuts to have to hold 40 pounds of water.

Original; http://gsiep.blogspot.com/2009/03/second-half-water.html