I did a quick search on this site, and found an excellent recent thread on water storage : Water Storage For Newcomers.
But as I have a 100' deep covered bottle well, with a hand pump due to be fitted soon (if the company gets round to it before WW3 breaks out, which is looking increasingly dubious the way things in Syria are going!), I am more interested in water filters.
I'm not just talking about miniature "straw" filters, although those are useful, and recommendations on them will also be welcome. I'm more interested in "bulk" filters, maybe something about the size of a large jerry can that can handle say 20 or more litres at a time, for drinking, washing, and cooking, maybe a continuous flow filter.
Also, I'd prefer filters that don't rely on supplementary non-renewable spares such as pills or liquids that one must buy separately and which in a post-SHTF situation would run out with no chance of resupply, as that would obviously be somewhat inconvenient to say the least.
Meanwhile, on another topic, I've also been reading up on Viking sunstones, and birefringent and dichroic crystals, and plan to post here about that soon. It's probably of limited practical use, even post-WW3, unless you happen to accidently step on your last working compass and it cracks with a sickening crunch! But it could be quite handy to know how one can locate the sun with high accuracy on a mostly cloudy day! Also, in relation to this, did you know one can make the equivalent of a sunstone from a pair of polaroid sunglasses and a sheet of cellophane?
But as I have a 100' deep covered bottle well, with a hand pump due to be fitted soon (if the company gets round to it before WW3 breaks out, which is looking increasingly dubious the way things in Syria are going!), I am more interested in water filters.
I'm not just talking about miniature "straw" filters, although those are useful, and recommendations on them will also be welcome. I'm more interested in "bulk" filters, maybe something about the size of a large jerry can that can handle say 20 or more litres at a time, for drinking, washing, and cooking, maybe a continuous flow filter.
Also, I'd prefer filters that don't rely on supplementary non-renewable spares such as pills or liquids that one must buy separately and which in a post-SHTF situation would run out with no chance of resupply, as that would obviously be somewhat inconvenient to say the least.
Meanwhile, on another topic, I've also been reading up on Viking sunstones, and birefringent and dichroic crystals, and plan to post here about that soon. It's probably of limited practical use, even post-WW3, unless you happen to accidently step on your last working compass and it cracks with a sickening crunch! But it could be quite handy to know how one can locate the sun with high accuracy on a mostly cloudy day! Also, in relation to this, did you know one can make the equivalent of a sunstone from a pair of polaroid sunglasses and a sheet of cellophane?