Water: a method to clarifing

[Alfredo]

Hello everybody.
Today I would like to show you a simple and good system to “purify” water.
Pay attention: tihs system works sto eliminate sand, particules, insect’s eggs etc. from the water that you may find during outdoor activities, but does’nt work to eliminate bacteria or other dangerous micro-organisms (like Clostridium perfringens, Escherichia coli): to eliminate them and to obtain drinkable water, safe 100%, you need, after this process, to boiled the water or in alternative to use chlorine or iodium.

Here we have our “dirty” water:



Now, we need for a pot (in this case, a glass), and a strip of paper or cotton (note: sinthetic material does’nt works!):



Put the strip in the dirty water, and the dry side of the strip in the pot for the clean water. After 5 minutes…:



After 10 minutes…:



When the strip is completely wet, you may se the water falling down drop by drop, continously.
Afetr 20 minutes:



Well, I stopped now, because what was interesting to me was to show you the process and the final results.
Using bigger pots, more strips and more time, you may increase of corse the quantità of the clean water. I obtained 1,5 litres of water using 4 stripes during 1 night.
After 36 hours at room temperature, the water abotained with this method is always whitout smell or “strange” colors:


Hope you enjoy. Next time I’ll show the method I use to do a good bread in the bushcraft!
Ciao, Alfredo

 

[g4ghb]

nice one Alfrdo!

Kinda like a millbank bag inside out.......

the simple ideas are always the best I think!

 

[Asa Samuel]

Fantastic! Always handy to know different methods of obtaining cleaner drinking water. Looking forward to the bread article

 

[Shewie]

This also works well with a wool sock, done it a few times when I've forgotten my millbank.

A twist on this is for keeping your house plants alive while you're on holiday.

Fill the kitchen sink with water, rest a tea towel on the draining board with the plant pots on top, then just hang one end of the tea towel in the water. The plants will absorb enough water through the roots to keep them going until you get back.