DIY Compact Survival Kit

Step 11 Water Treatment

There are many ways that you can treat your water. There are filters, chemicals, and you can boil it. Since filters are too large for a small kit, chemicals are best suited. Iodine can be a dangerous chemical to play with, because if you put too much of it in you wont know it, and you can damage organs. With chlorine, if you put too much into it then it will taste bad enough that you wont be able to drink it. Also chlorine, if left uncovered, will dissipate from water after a day or two.
If you run out of, or lose your chemicals, then remember that you can boil your water.

Remember to read, and follow the directions on your purifier carefully before purifying the water.

Comments

[co2wms7whcc]

Would it not be best to use regular chlorine bleach? If you put to much in your water, you can leave it in the sun for an hour. It will kill any organisms/parasites and then evaporate out of the water.

[h0meIandsecurity]

...and use it for that!?

[h0meIandsecurity]

can you produce chlorine with electrolysis of salt water

[stormthirst]

Boiling water has been the best way of killing bugs for millenia! A tin can will do wonders for that - it can hold beans or similar and when you're done you've got a small kettle too.