Water&Food
New Member
Fresh drinking water is getting harder to get your hands on without resorting to licenses and paying up fees to companies/governments (excluding rain or streams running through your property - lucky you)
The problem with water stacking is that it has to be stored in food grade containers out of sunlight, and even then still has under 20 years before needing to be treated (if stored still), and don't get me started on kinder surprise mosquito larvae found in still water, and that still depends on atmosphere and environment where the containers are stored since plastic is susceptible to 'breathing' (i.e. outside particles leeching in to contaminate water).
So, what I propose is to instead stack purification tablets or equivalent. This not only solves the dilemma of storage space, but also solves a hassle free way of quick and easy 'sanctifying' (i.e. sanitizing) of water.
However, purification tablets also have shelf life, but silver apparently does not.
Unless you is one of them rulers of the world with acreage containing lakes and runoff, you are still relying on others for water.
Rainwater tanks only get you so far. 5000 Litres only lasts one person one month most times (if using less than 40L per day for both showers and washing of clothes and crockery). Still takes up lots of space. At least with purification tablets you can just 'stumble' across water elsewhere (such as the sea/ocean).
Purification Tablets can be found at any good army disposal store or camping stores. They are 'cheap'.
I forget the shelf life of these tablets, cause the ones I have now do not have a date visible. So, I will come back to post at a later date when I go back to buy some more in Brisbane today/tomorrow.
The problem with water stacking is that it has to be stored in food grade containers out of sunlight, and even then still has under 20 years before needing to be treated (if stored still), and don't get me started on kinder surprise mosquito larvae found in still water, and that still depends on atmosphere and environment where the containers are stored since plastic is susceptible to 'breathing' (i.e. outside particles leeching in to contaminate water).
So, what I propose is to instead stack purification tablets or equivalent. This not only solves the dilemma of storage space, but also solves a hassle free way of quick and easy 'sanctifying' (i.e. sanitizing) of water.
However, purification tablets also have shelf life, but silver apparently does not.
Unless you is one of them rulers of the world with acreage containing lakes and runoff, you are still relying on others for water.
Rainwater tanks only get you so far. 5000 Litres only lasts one person one month most times (if using less than 40L per day for both showers and washing of clothes and crockery). Still takes up lots of space. At least with purification tablets you can just 'stumble' across water elsewhere (such as the sea/ocean).
Purification Tablets can be found at any good army disposal store or camping stores. They are 'cheap'.
I forget the shelf life of these tablets, cause the ones I have now do not have a date visible. So, I will come back to post at a later date when I go back to buy some more in Brisbane today/tomorrow.
