Good info on disinfecting water for cheap!!!

[StagLefty]

Here's the MSDS...

http://www.sciencestuff.com/msds/C1447.html

"Corrosive to the eyes, skin, respiratory and digestive tracts." Don't know how dilute it would need to be to be safe but I'm not sure I would want to ingest it anyway.

More good info-that's why I stick to stuff that is specifically designed for purifying "drinking water".

[Jeff350]

Here's the MSDS...

http://www.sciencestuff.com/msds/C1447.html

"Corrosive to the eyes, skin, respiratory and digestive tracts." Don't know how dilute it would need to be to be safe but I'm not sure I would want to ingest it anyway.

You trust good ol' Uncle Sam right?

EPA Emergency Drinking Water Recommendations

You can use granular calcium hypochlorite to disinfect water.
Add and dissolve one heaping teaspoon of high-test granular calcium hypochlorite (approximately ¼ ounce) for each two gallons of water, or 5 milliliters (approximately 7 grams) per 7.5 liters of water. The mixture will produce a stock chlorine solution of approximately 500 milligrams per liter, since the calcium hypochlorite has available chlorine equal to 70 percent of its weight. To disinfect water, add the chlorine solution in the ratio of one part of chlorine solution to each 100 parts of water to be treated. This is roughly equal to adding 1 pint (16 ounces) of stock chlorine to each 12.5 gallons of water or (approximately ½ liter to 50 liters of water) to be disinfected. To remove any objectionable chlorine odor, aerate the disinfected water by pouring it back and forth from one clean container to another.

[Anton]

Obviously anything that will kill bacteria is bad for our cells too. That said, after seeing the MSDS, I'd try to find something slightly less corrosive.

[Wulf202]

Obviously anything that will kill bacteria is bad for our cells too. That said, after seeing the MSDS, I'd try to find something slightly less corrosive.

Seriously?

Have you checked the MSDS on coke syrup?

Cal hypo is good stuff for preps, somewhere I posted a youtube link earlier this year.

[Wulf202]

More good info-that's why I stick to stuff that is specifically designed for purifying "drinking water".

Cal hypo is used in many cases by the municipalities for water treatment.

[Anton]

Have you checked the MSDS on coke syrup?

No. Because, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't one.

[Wulf202]

I have this stuff for our fish tank that dechlorinizes and neutralizes heavy metals for fish. Would it be something to bleach your water, then de-bleach it and neutralize the heavy metals? It is just store bought Aqua safe. After cleaning stuff with bleach, I put some on my hands to get rid of the bleach smell. Works pretty well I think.

There's no way to blanket neutralize all heavy metals out of drinking water without distillation.

Thiosulfate is what removes chlorine, UV light breaks it down as does oxygen. Dumping the water back and forth between containers or letting it sit in the sun for about a half hour with the lid off is all it takes.

[SNAFU]

10,000 gallons? going to carry it? Providing water for a couple hundred?
I'll keep to my Katadyn Pocket filter,,my Expedition and micropur tablets.
Easy enough to boil water while heating/cooking over a fire.
Not to mention having a good well.

http://www.katadyn.com/usen/katadyn-...package-of-30/

[4gunfun]

10,000 gallons? going to carry it? Providing water for a couple hundred?
I'll keep to my Katadyn Pocket filter,,my Expedition and micropur tablets.
Easy enough to boil water while heating/cooking over a fire.
Not to mention having a good well.

http://www.katadyn.com/usen/katadyn-...package-of-30/

No, I'm gonna put a heaping teaspoon into 2 gallons and put it on a shelf. For the $14 plus shiping for 30 tablets will make 7.5 gallons of water which will last my family of 6 plus their spouses about a day. So if I want to say last 6 months $15 x 180 days = $2700. I'll spend the $5 on pool shock and the rest on food and other supplies. But to each their own.

[Fentonite]

No, I'm gonna put a heaping teaspoon into 2 gallons and put it on a shelf. For the $14 plus shiping for 30 tablets will make 7.5 gallons of water which will last my family of 6 plus their spouses about a day. So if I want to say last 6 months $15 x 180 days = $2700. I'll spend the $5 on pool shock and the rest on food and other supplies. But to each their own.

I like the way you think.