Could be, I took your advice & started drinking my river water, ............but I try not to ingest things I can't spell or pronounce.
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How safe is river water?
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Could be, I took your advice & started drinking my river water, ............but I try not to ingest things I can't spell or pronounce.
resnikov
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Think hes talking about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage and maybe a small ineudno
Think hes talking about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage and maybe a small ineudno
thank you sir, you're rude too talking about inuendos, I know they're italian suppositories,...........................I saw ray mear's program about that & enjoyed it but mostly for the pleasure of seeing berghaus vulcans.in action...............thanks again.
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and to pull the thread back into it's course (pun on water there 
) apart from charcoal is there anything that can be done to clear water more effectively as a diy kind of thing ?......and how does one 'activate' charcoal ??
cheers,
Toddy
) apart from charcoal is there anything that can be done to clear water more effectively as a diy kind of thing ?......and how does one 'activate' charcoal ??cheers,
Toddy
Activating charcoal take a very slow burn at very high temps, it opens up the fissures and pours of the individual carbon cluster to give it a massive surface area, apparently one gram of activated charcoal if you could unfurl each carbon cluster would cover a football pitch. I'm not sure you could replicate the processes at home? stand to be corrected though.
i wasn't saying tap water is bad for you you seem to have got completely the wrong end of the stick. chemicals essential in water include calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and copper to name a few all vital for our continued existence.
yeah granite is also radioactive yet people make kitchen counters out of it 'radioactivity' isn't necessarily dangerous it all depends on the type of radiation. alpha or gamma radiation is harmless to humans
and to pull the thread back into it's course (pun on water there
cheers,
Toddy
I've always found showing charcoal the BBQ get's it pretty activated.........but if you want the real stuff you can't make it in your garage, 'cause it involves heat & chemicals & all that lark, you know, them industrial fings that pollute rivers.
These are not chemicals, they are minerals & are not essential in water( Peter O'toole has never drunk water & as far as I know, he doesn't suffer from mineral dificiency) as they are found in our foods. You only need traces not Kilos of the stuff.
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As you well know professor, there are many kinds of radiation & what fell from Tchernobyl clouds is not the same kind as found in some granite..we are bombarded with radiation every day from the sun, & if you are lucky enough to spend a few weeks in the mountains, you will recieve quite a healthy dose as well...........whatever comes our way we can't do anything about it so lt's useless worring about it, as you said it isn't necessarily dangerous, just a question of dosage............
CaCl2 or ZnCl2 aren't exactly problematical. The calcium chloride is a seawater component and is widely used to make tofu.
Seems pretty straightforward to make the activated charcoal in a kiln tbh.
However, considering the price of buying it is buttons......no contest.
cheers,
Toddy
Seems pretty straightforward to make the activated charcoal in a kiln tbh.
However, considering the price of buying it is buttons......no contest.
cheers,
Toddy
You can find the guide lines for clean drinking water here-http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/fulltext.pdf
It is a publication by the World Health Organization (who) and includes all recommendations and considerations for chemical, radioactive particulate and microbiological contamination. If this is really going to take a simple question to the nth degree I suggest a few hours/days reading this instead of hearsay and opinions expressed as fact.
The poor OP must be more confused now than when he started!!
Unless anyone out there had done research on every river/watercourse in the UK then nobody can state what is or isn't safe-what we can do is advise as to what methods we use and try to inform using personal experiences. Macho posturing and poor science isn't going to help anyone come to an informed decision.
It is a publication by the World Health Organization (who) and includes all recommendations and considerations for chemical, radioactive particulate and microbiological contamination. If this is really going to take a simple question to the nth degree I suggest a few hours/days reading this instead of hearsay and opinions expressed as fact.
The poor OP must be more confused now than when he started!!
Unless anyone out there had done research on every river/watercourse in the UK then nobody can state what is or isn't safe-what we can do is advise as to what methods we use and try to inform using personal experiences. Macho posturing and poor science isn't going to help anyone come to an informed decision.
From my experience Tofu is in itself toxic ...or at least makes me want to spit it out... or gag......
not the greatest advert for calcium chloride.....
Paganwolf
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
youve got no friends and you live near the nuke reactor its all making sense now...
Oi! That's my dinner you're talking about !
I like tofu, I really do. You can have the dead something or other that Himself and the cat are having
....I think the cat's winning though, himself's having black pudding and the cat food tin says chicken and turkey breast in a juicy gravy 
cheers,
M
"Can I just say how much I agree wth the previous caller" ....Tofu....can't stand the stuff, even though I know how to spell it.
Wow - that has to be the ultimate guide!
I have saved that one too!
Still it seems to boil
) )down to "do your research and treat as needed" again Similar threads
