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Water
Complete Water Analysis Test Kit / APN Product Review
It’s not often when worry is put to rest, especially when it comes from playing in water. A prime reason I chose my home was because it had a Water Well, a key item in maintaining independence from outside resource. Without need of a municipal water supply, I can live on my property without worry of […]
Water Purification Tips Everyone Needs to Know
Water Purification Tips Everyone Needs to Know Water purification is important whether you’re planning a family camping trip or your municipal water supply to your house has been tainted. Understanding how to properly and safely purify drinking water is an essential life skill. Tainted drinking water can carry bacteria and microorganisms that can make you […]
Treating Water: Video & Transcription
Video By Lonewolf Wilderness Survival School Please support their channel by subscribing here Transcription provided by American Preppers Network Number of speakers: 1 (Shane) Duration: 8 min 16 sec Treating Water Hey! Welcome back YouTubers!! It’s Shane with Lone Wolf Survival and I want to talk a little bit about water purification and water filtering. There’s a lot […]
Water Wars on American Soil
Water Wars on American Soil James Walton “I Am Liberty” If you have followed I AM Liberty at all over the three years it’s been around you have heard us talk about the very controversial topic of impending extreme drought in the West. On a planet that is ¾ water it is very tough to […]
Water Purification for Preppers
Every prepper knows the importance of water. Quite simply, you can’t live without it. Within three days, dehydration will take hold and death soon thereafter. The procurement and catchment from a water source is step one. Water Purification is step two. The water you’re hoping to drink might be riddled with parasites or bacteria particles, […]
Water Storage for Preppers
One of the basic principles of prepping is the survival rule of threes. Under extreme conditions, you can only live: Three Minutes without Oxygen Three Hours without Shelter Three Days without Water Three Weeks without Food Water is life. A person can only survive a few days without water. The easy availability of clean drinking […]
Ammonium Dichromate: A Dual Natured Chemical Compound
Chemical science has developed a lot when compared to its earlier days. The analysis of chemicals and their effectiveness whether useful or hazardous could be easy known to the chemists now. Indeed it takes time but not as like early. However mostly known for their negative properties chemicals also have proved out highly useful for […]
The 4 Points To Consider While Using KMnO4 For Water Disinfecting
One of the necessities of human beings has been water. Certainly there is no life without water. It has endless applications. Other than being used for domestic purposes, there have been various other uses of water including fountains and synchronized musical shows. The prime requirement while using water for any purpose is that it should […]
Preparing For a Volcano Eruption
With all the hype lately about Yellow Stone’s Volcano and how it could “possibly” erupt a lot sooner than expected, I thought I would put together this article for you on preparing for the aftermath and some things to consider adding to your preparedness supplies. In all honesty, I had never considered preparing for a […]
Food Storage I Get, But Water Storage?
It makes sense to have at least three days worth of emergency supplies in your home at all times. Depending on where you live and your particular situation, you may want to keep more supplies than this available, but three days of emergency food storage is a good starting point. The idea of gathering in […]
5 Water Storage Tips Everyone Should Know
Please note this article is about water storage tips. Purification of water is a different topic, although I do touch the topic here a bit. Tip #1 Know Your Containers Not all containers are created equal. Whether the container you wish to store water in is something you can place in your Bug Out […]
Why We Must Filter Our Water
Botanist John Muir carried no bottled water when he hiked 1,000 miles through the wilderness from Indiana to Florida. Instead, the 29-year-old drank from streams, lakes and an occasional bayou to quench his thirst and lived to write about it. Muir knew nothing of filtering chromium, lead, mercury or chlorine from water. In fact, his […]
What You Need to Know about Water Tablets
Water purification tablets are an ideal one-step back up form of water treatment. They are especially good for Get Home Bags and Bug Out Bags because they are light weight and inexpensive. Water purification tablets are also great to store in your vehicle or your bug out location to disinfect water on demand. Even though […]
How To Rehab a Shallow Well
Three years ago, when we moved into our current house, there was a deck attached off of the kitchen. It wasn’t very high – 2-3 feet. The next spring, we noticed that there was some rot by the sliding door in that location and explored. This ended up resulting in a huge problem; the foundation […]
Install a Drip System for Your Garden
Written and lived by Stephanie Dayle A low pressure drip system is a homesteader’s and prepper’s dream irrigation system. There are so many advantages to them, but the one that preppers usually find very attractive is that they are powered by ‘low water pressure’ and with a little bit of research one can be designed that […]
Purifying and Filtering Water – Basic Preparedness Skills – Introduction
Introduction to a new content series on Water purifying, filtering and collection. Pre-Filtering is discussed at length with an overall introduction to the series.
Water and 72 Hour Kits / Bug Out Bags
Basic Preparedness Instruction on water and 72 hour kits – what you need in your bag to take care of your water needs. We discuss different types of “pre-packaged” water to keep with you, containers for carrying more water and filters for cleaning water that you find on your way.
Boiling Water for Survival
Basic Preparedness Instruction on water and the process required to properly boil it to purify it for drinking.
Preparedness 101 – Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink
Preparedness 101 – Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink Article By: MooMamma Website: MooSaidTheMama.blogspot.com A well-known stanza from the poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reads: Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Every time I read an […]
Is Radioactive Rainwater in our Future?
By Linda Holliday Here in the Ozarks, we are expanding our growing areas, relearning old-time skills, acquiring hand tools and building human-powered devices while we still can. But, preparing for radioactive rain? We hadn’t thought of that. While global warming seemed a fairytale to many 25 years ago, I personally banned Styrofoam, aerosol sprays, pesticides, […]