My Biology teacher (30+ yrs ago) taught us (the camping club she sponsored) this trick to make any stream water safe. All thes new fangled water purifiers which are in the hundreds of dollars take up a lot more backpack space. Thanks Mrs. Lewis from Saguaro High School in 1985 & thanks to you for teaching a little simple ingenuity to the next generation.
@@kriskjellquist1758 I was just gonna say the same thing.....granted, its not $, but I don't have to worry about an expiration date, or spilling it where its not wanted.
@@Raythe don't compare the effectiveness of chemical treatment with that of a filter. Filters remove solid residue and don't add undesirable flavours, but they won't do anything about viruses and other small hazardous agents. Best is combining both as this video explains. 90% of the time there is access to clear water abundantly.
We did this procedure in the Army with our purification tablets, but we loosened the cap to let some water into the treads. Very good video, thanks and you take care.
After agitating the bleach you turn the bottle upside down and unscrew the cap alittle to let the treated water in and around the threads of the bottle. If the water was bad when it went in the bottle then there will be nasties around the top that need to be treated also.
Chlorine dioxide does s much better job than bleach to treat water and can be used internally. Chlorine dioxide kills viruses ruclips.net/video/Z_iiI3_9Jkk/видео.html Look up MMS / CDS online. Andreas kalcker does an excellent RUclips presentation on making CDS from sodium chloride and either citric acid or 4% hydrochloric acid.
Your comment reminds me of this case where a couple kids killed one of the kid's family members. One of the kids was drinking soda out of a bottle. He screwed on the lid and threw it in a river. The detectives found some weeks later and were able to get his DNA from the threads of the cap and bottle. This sounds crazy, but it really happened. There is a whole video about it here on RUclips, with interviews with the detectives and scientists. edit: I remember the details now... They put the murder weapon and other stuff all in a bag and threw it in the river. The cops got tipped off on that and when they found the bag, it had the bottle inside.
Basic knowledge of the past folks. I was taught this as a child back in the 60s. 2 tablespoon of bleach per gallon, mix and let sit for a couple hours. Safe to drink and most of the odor will be evaporated. When I was raised parents believed that a man should be able to do everything, and if not be able to figure it out. Sewing, cooking, farming, first aid, setting bones, closing wounds, cleaning, fishing, hunting, not getting lost, working hard, reading, finding water, and more.
I was raised in the 50's and 60's also. My father was a career military officer and I was into scouting before I finally had to decide between scouts and sports. Back then I really loved camping and my friend and I would take off on our bikes to Hickory Run State Park in Pa. We'd take our fishing poles along with a canteen and camp knife. We'd live off the land so to speak for days at a time. Obviously this was during the summer. I taught my sons the same skills and they've been passing ,it on to the grands. Things were so much better then. These days a lot of the millennials have very few of the skills that we took for granted.
@@SJ-hw7bx overcome, improvise, and adapt. The disgusting city dwellers can't infect you with their mind viruses when you segregate yourself and raise your children on your own. 👌
He just said two drops per quart there's four quarts in a gallon if there's four quarts in a gallon 2 * 4 is 8 so common sense dictates 8 drops per gallon 2 tablespoons will probably poison you
I am a pigeon-racer from Belgium and i use it to desinfect the water i give to my pigeons.I use 1 ml on 1liter water .Keeps away a lot of nasty diseases.I learned this from my grandfather back in the sixties.
Great and simple video! A note about fragranced bleach....if that's all you can find and you have a little unfragranced bleach keep in mind that A TINY AMOUNT OF BLEACH PURIFIES A LOOOOOOOOOOT OF WATER. Use the fragranced bleach for a household cleaner (surfaces, knobs, et al) and mix at 1/2 cup of bleach per gallon. ---IMPORTANT--- when you wash a surface with thie bleach mixture, do not wipe off. Let it sit for at least 5 minutes before wiping off excess water. It takes time for the bad guys to die......envision in your mind that they are dying slowly and painfully. :-) Then wipe off.
Good video . The weak and arrogant will be out of the way first . It takes some research to learn survival , even if a limited amount . Tidbits like this can change everything . Thanks friend !
The weak and arrogant still deserve to live. Please help and serve others as much as you can to make sure we all survive this attack on humanity. God Bless and be well. 🙏❤🇺🇸
@@jjcruz750 this comment is more of adding to your comment, to put it in perspective the entire US Military has something like 4 million firearms, food for thought.
I have read through a lot of the comments, we are all on the same page I’m thankful for you sir. we all need these life saving information in these times that we are living in.
Knew this works but nice to see the dosage rate for small water quantities. It can't be stressed enough to remove the original label from your dropper. Glad you did it although it wasn't mentioned. There are far too many instances of folks getting household products mixed up because the are in similar containers. Drops of chlorine in you eyes from container thought to be eye drops would be devastating!
Very important to remember to remove the original label and relabel , as you did , so someone doesn't accidently put bleach in their eye . I once saw a guy take several large gulps of gasoline out of a Gator Aid bottle . He ran around in circles for five minutes and then fell down . He wasn't dead , I think he ran out of gas !
@Alisha Thompson Steel This is exactly what your municipal water departments use to purify your tap water. It's perfectly safe when used properly. If you really do care to read, you can read this to learn more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_chlorination
I really like my Sawyer filter, but in certain areas with springs and/or high quality water I love the ease of bleach. A small dropper weighs nothing and it's a great backup.
For the preppers... Poolshock is a good source of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite, 5 pounds will purify 20 years of drinking water (from rain or ground water) for a family of four.
I was telling someone just a few days ago that I remember reading years ago that you could purify water w/ bleach & I just now stumbled across your video what a coincidence, Thankyou for sharing & May God Bless
Thank you for clear, factual, usable information. I've heard 20 times "you can purify water with bleach." Once or twice, I've heard how much, amid lots of blah, blah, but it didn't stick. NOW, its simple. (Smart people in 1 thing can be slow learners in others.) Happy surviving!
I’m am so happy i came across your channel!! Because I used a humidifier and I was wondering if I could put a couple drops of bleach in the water to keep the water from getting smiley. I have noticed it only takes two to three days for the water to start getting smiley. And figured if they can add bleach to swimming pools it should be okay to add a little to my humidifier to cut down on bacteria 🦠 I’m so thankful for you. May God blessed you always.
The extremely diluted amount of bleach won't really cause any damage to plastic, if you're worried about plastic in general the amount of estrogenic compounds you get from plastic water bottles is frankly minimal when you take into account just how much plastic we come in contact with every day of our lives.
I've used Clorox for decades to purify water while camping. 2 drops per liter, mix, wait 20 minutes. Oh, he just said that. Depending on water quality. How's your bleach supply?
I know you made this video a few years ago but I am grateful for this information because the city we live in messed with their water system and we keep getting sick from our tap water. I am going to try this and see if it helps at all.
I've run into too many people who say things like: "real men don't have to worry about the water", "I only drink from really clear untouched steams" - Giardia can really ruin a trip - and at least a week to recover.
When a "real man" comes down with amoebic dysentery - bilharzia / snail fever and a variety of other illnesses caused from unclean water , the real man will get his act together . I came down with amoebic dysentery in SE Asia and lost 12 pounds of body weight in 2 weeks . After several doses of antibiotics , it took 6 weeks to totally recover . Treat that water - boil it and treat it again . ATB
I have had giardia. Not a lot of fun. Took me a six month period to FULLY recover from it, and I was younger and healthier, then. ALWAYS treat water you plan to drink, even if it looks clear and clean, fresh from a mountain stream, or lake.
Thanks for the refresher course, it's been quite a few years since I last went camping and I couldn't remember the ratio. Off topic: I went to the local grocery store a few days ago and as a result of over 45 years of smoking, I occasionally get a dry "smoker's hack". Well, a small bout hit me at the store and being trained in precautions after working 15 years as a CNA, covered my mouth using my shoulder/upper arm. After only about 5-6 coughs, I looked around and the reaction on people's faces was, IMO, comically horrified. I swear I probably would have gotten a calmer response if I had pulled out an AK and began open firing.
What I learnt today: i) Don't stir water in a bottle. Instead, "agitate" it. 😛 ii) Beard can be used a pre-filter for water mixed with visible impurities. Cheers! 👍
Great thanks. I remember my folk's doing this to our water when we were on a cattle drive or hunting trip in the mountains. We wouldn't be able to carry water with us except for what we could carry in our canteens on our horses. But I wasn't sure exactly much bleach to put in. Id ask them but ..hey've all passed away. May the rest in peace. Thanks again. Peace, love and health be with you Brother. KEH 🇨🇦
Very very cool saving money is awesome. I know to re label the dropper like you did myself but would have liked to see you stressed that more for safety just so everyone didn’t forget to do that. It would be bad if someone mixed their eye dropper up with the bleach one. Thanks
I remember living on the farm when I was a kid in the late 1940's we had well water, Dad told me the well was 24 feet deep and it was 14 feet wide, I have no Idea where got Idea, but when the well would run over and stop running after a heavy rain, he poured a gallon of bleach in well it set for 3 days, with him pumping water for 2 or 3 hours and putting into back into the well, then he took a sample of water to town to have it tested to be safe or not.
This video is what's called "just in time delivery"! I was just wondering today, after buying bleach incase the water needs treated and needed to know the ratio. Perfect timing. Perhaps my phone actually picks up on my thoughts. Haha
Good really good video.....guess some men have not fill their canteen and walk up stream to find a dead animal....that will make a believer of treating all water....you never waste your message always on point! Thanks for real world facts....yes I did and yes I treat all water since 1977. No didn't get sick but I was lucky not smart. Big brain yuk even today..ha ha. I was 8 days out alone radio down it could have end my life. God helps thoses who learn guess he gave me a break...the animals had been poison a week before, very ripe...treat all water. Thank You!
This was extremely helpful. I just bought a vietnam era 36 gallon lyster(lister) bag so I worked out the bleach to water ratio to be 1 1/2tsp for a full 36 gallons of clear water or 2-3tsp for cloudy water
Good info! That’s what we did in Boy Scouts! I wonder, have you ever used pool shock to make a working bleach solution? I’ve read about it online but I’ve never actually tried it. It’s a good way to have a long term supply of bleach.
Thanks, my household was recently under a boil water order. I have a zero water filter, (which removes most chemicals) but it not safe with microbes "go figure". So I took my tap water added bleach let it sit for awhile then ran it through the filter to try and remove any chemicals from the bleach. It appears to be a good solution to boiling my drinking water. I am refining the method.
Thanks, my household was recently under a boil water order. I have a zero water filter, (which removes most chemicals) but it not safe with microbes "go figure". So I took my tap water added bleach let it sit for awhile then ran it through the filter to try and remove any chemicals from the bleach. It appears to be a good solution to boiling my drinking water. I am refining the method.
very nice video. I use to use liquid bleach to purify water but liquid bleach is only good for one year but tablets are good for much longer periods. Lets hope none of us ever have to use this method because we have to. It is a useful way to purify water, but not my first choice.
Great Video Brotha! I carry my bleach in a eyedrop container as well when I go on trips. I only use this style of disinfecting water when its a clearer water source if it's dirty or has an odor I use sawyer filter. I always carry at least 4 ways to disinfect water in my pack though.
Short and sweet. Indeed this was helpful. I like the use of the empty Visine bottle. I have a couple that are not empty yet, but will keep one and label it, as you have shown. Maybe you could do a video showing the results of using those suggested mediums of filtration, starting off with obvious dirty and cloudy water. I hesitate to give details because of the times, we live in, but I often practice, filtering water from one source in particular, through old but clean T-shirts and worn flannel shirts, and other worn cloth. Practicing these things, these processes, opens up your mind to a whole bunch of awareness. 5 gallon buckets are good for practice and usage. Keep lids and use lids. Just think about anything that uses a filter, example vacuum cleaners, or your furnace, your AC unit, and so on, revisit those materials, and how they trap particles and dirt. I uses old window screens, AC filter screens, over buckets to keep big stuff out like leaves. When filtering into buckets, I use layers of pasta strainers, with cloth laid into and overlapping the pasta strainers. Good results, for my non drinking purposes. Understanding filtration the gradients of charcoal, stone and sand, as with a rain barrel, is all good basic knowledge to possess!
Simple straight forward, good info to know , cone coffee filters may work best. Read the scroll below ,the bottle cap needs to have agitated bleach water poured in to it prior to sitting for one half hour or more.
I also carry a pill bottle full of citric acid. after I wait the 30 min (clear) hour (cloudy) I add a quarter of a teaspoon of the citric acid and you will not taste the bleach in the water if you are like me with sensitive pallet. as well little vit c never hurts lol great info man stay safe
@@brachasilvermanmitnick7986 large doses will but we are talking small amounts. I have drank gallons of it and am still kicking. Yep, still kicking tried walking through a wall and failed so we are still good lol. Cheers
Household bleach is not a good choice for water sanitization. Especially if you're buying the cheap stuff. And even more so if you're buying cheap bleach from the dollar store. The reason being is that household bleach has a finite shelf life of only about a year. And if you buy it from the dollar store it's probably old already, that's why it's in the dollar store. The better option is to buy 73% Calcium Hypochlrite granules. This can be purchased at any pool supply store in 1 lb bags for about $6. One 1 lb bag will sanitize 10,000 gallons of water and has an indefinite shelf life when stored properly. According to the U.S. Army "Sanitary Control and Survielllance of Field Water Supplies" manual(TB MED577)a bleach/sanitizing solution can be made by mixing 2 tbs Calcium Hypochlorite granules with 3 cups water and using this solution to sanitize water for drinking by adding 8 drops per gallon and letting it sit for 30 minutes before drinking. Plus having a couple bags on hand in case the SHTF you'll have all the drinking water you'll ever need andyou'll also be able to help countless people have safe drinking water making you a valuble asset to a group. You'll also have the option of using it for barter or trade as people will be needing safe drinking water. Just imagine how valuble just 2 tbs could be worth in a SHTF situation. 2 tbs is enough to sanitize 1,875 gallons of water. Imagine how valuble that would be to someone without a way to make water safe to drink. Obviously helping those in need is the right thing to do and for a small investment for several bags or even a 5 lb container you could be that valuble asset making you the person that everyone is willing to help in any way they can. Providing safe drinking water would probably get you fed or sheltered, fueled, who knows what else. On the other hand there's always going to be someone who's a bad, evil or untrustworthy person that you don't want around or in your group/clan and doesn't deserve the free help, but will probaly have something of value to trade or barter. And in such a situation safe drinking water will be VERY valuble. So a mere 2 tbs of granules could be a VERY valule trade item.
Mike Lysic In real SHTF scenarios, someone will just rob you of the stuff once people know you have it, especially after you tell someone how to use it properly. What makes a person truly valuable and indispensable is knowing hard to learn truly helpful skills - like being a doctor, or being a welder, for example. Just sayin’!
You are right on many levels, but you need to be super careful how you store, meant for swimming pool, products. I ignorantly stored a very small bag of pool chemical,swapped into, poured into a plastic jug, part way, with room enough to stuff a couple small plastic measuring spoons. It all went to chlorine gas which is SO dangerous, it can be deadly. I had it in a cabinet, for a year, and I began smelling chlorine. I had to get rid of it, and the potency of the gas while getting rid of it, was intense. I won't say where I dumped it, but after, dumping the small pile, outside, and time for gas to dissipate, I slowly dissolved it with water. It actually slightly melted the jug, and discolored the measuring spoons. Be careful with pool chemicals. I do not store any after that. What I did store, I had for water sterilization. But until I get a better grasp on pool chemicals, I will stick to bottled bleach.
A 2 pack of the 1 Micron 4"x8" Singed Polyester Felt Filter Bag PESP3S size 3 cost $4.95 on Amazon. It's a bag that filters water at 1 micron and can be reused as much as a person wants. Mark one side as clean and the other as dirty. Then after it dries you can turn it inside out and shake a lot of the debre it caught from it. Later at home wash it. When dry the bag has a slow flow threw it , after it gets wet it has a fast flow. They come in all different micron filtering sizes. I like them as a pre filter for swamp water and all the stuff that's in it.
This simple video is one of my favorites, I had to revisit it once again. Our river behind my house has mercury in it from the mining days 1800's. They tell us only eat one fish a week out of there. Is there a way to purify this water to drink?
Check out distillation of water which should eliminate chemicals. easy way to distill water, fill a large pot and boil water. Pot is covered with a domed lid, put upside down. The steam will collect on the inverted dome and drip back down. Important part : have a heavy glass jar in the center of the pot of boiling water and the steam will drip and collect into the glass jar. This is your distilled water.
What a doll, humanitarian! Thank-You so much. Your video is exactly what I wanted to know for a just incase, never know , what if this happens. And in the smaller quantity of available tainted, questionable water. Your video showed up in my feed as if You Tube read my mind in only two days, lol. Perfect I am grateful.
Full-fledged RUclips videos for things we used to learn as children. Lololololololol 😂. I don't know why, but this reminds me of having the teach people which direction to screw things in. 😆
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My Biology teacher (30+ yrs ago) taught us (the camping club she sponsored) this trick to make any stream water safe. All thes new fangled water purifiers which are in the hundreds of dollars take up a lot more backpack space. Thanks Mrs. Lewis from Saguaro High School in 1985 & thanks to you for teaching a little simple ingenuity to the next generation.
by "hundreds of dollars" you mean the $20 Sawyer mini? ;-)
@@kriskjellquist1758 I was just gonna say the same thing.....granted, its not $, but I don't have to worry about an expiration date, or spilling it where its not wanted.
@@Raythe don't compare the effectiveness of chemical treatment with that of a filter. Filters remove solid residue and don't add undesirable flavours, but they won't do anything about viruses and other small hazardous agents. Best is combining both as this video explains.
90% of the time there is access to clear water abundantly.
We did this procedure in the Army with our purification tablets, but we loosened the cap to let some water into the treads. Very good video, thanks and you take care.
After agitating the bleach you turn the bottle upside down and unscrew the cap alittle to let the treated water in and around the threads of the bottle. If the water was bad when it went in the bottle then there will be nasties around the top that need to be treated also.
Right smart.
Great tip
Chlorine dioxide does s much better job than bleach to treat water and can be used internally.
Chlorine dioxide kills viruses
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Look up MMS / CDS online. Andreas kalcker does an excellent RUclips presentation on making CDS from sodium chloride and either citric acid or 4% hydrochloric acid.
I prefer to place to bottle about 30 yds away, and blow the cap off of the bottle with my AR-15.
Your comment reminds me of this case where a couple kids killed one of the kid's family members. One of the kids was drinking soda out of a bottle. He screwed on the lid and threw it in a river. The detectives found some weeks later and were able to get his DNA from the threads of the cap and bottle. This sounds crazy, but it really happened. There is a whole video about it here on RUclips, with interviews with the detectives and scientists. edit: I remember the details now... They put the murder weapon and other stuff all in a bag and threw it in the river. The cops got tipped off on that and when they found the bag, it had the bottle inside.
Basic knowledge of the past folks. I was taught this as a child back in the 60s. 2 tablespoon of bleach per gallon, mix and let sit for a couple hours. Safe to drink and most of the odor will be evaporated.
When I was raised parents believed that a man should be able to do everything, and if not be able to figure it out. Sewing, cooking, farming, first aid, setting bones, closing wounds, cleaning, fishing, hunting, not getting lost, working hard, reading, finding water, and more.
I was raised in the 50's and 60's also. My father was a career military officer and I was into scouting before I finally had to decide between scouts and sports. Back then I really loved camping and my friend and I would take off on our bikes to Hickory Run State Park in Pa. We'd take our fishing poles along with a canteen and camp knife. We'd live off the land so to speak for days at a time. Obviously this was during the summer. I taught my sons the same skills and they've been passing ,it on to the grands. Things were so much better then. These days a lot of the millennials have very few of the skills that we took for granted.
Yea...and now boy scouts are gone and they want to have the trans scouts
@@SJ-hw7bx overcome, improvise, and adapt. The disgusting city dwellers can't infect you with their mind viruses when you segregate yourself and raise your children on your own. 👌
Ass papers all gone..
He just said two drops per quart there's four quarts in a gallon if there's four quarts in a gallon 2 * 4 is 8 so common sense dictates 8 drops per gallon 2 tablespoons will probably poison you
I am a pigeon-racer from Belgium and i use it to desinfect the water i give to my pigeons.I use 1 ml on 1liter water .Keeps away a lot of nasty diseases.I learned this from my grandfather back in the sixties.
Great vid...straight to the point with out any extra crap like some people do to try to lengthen their vids to get more ads!!! Perfect!!!
Great and simple video! A note about fragranced bleach....if that's all you can find and you have a little unfragranced bleach keep in mind that A TINY AMOUNT OF BLEACH PURIFIES A LOOOOOOOOOOT OF WATER. Use the fragranced bleach for a household cleaner (surfaces, knobs, et al) and mix at 1/2 cup of bleach per gallon. ---IMPORTANT--- when you wash a surface with thie bleach mixture, do not wipe off. Let it sit for at least 5 minutes before wiping off excess water. It takes time for the bad guys to die......envision in your mind that they are dying slowly and painfully. :-) Then wipe off.
Simple and clear videos, this should be memorized by any able body
I thought people knew this but thanks for sharing it could save someone’s life one day! Well done! 👍
Very Helpful and useful video, I like that you specified to stay away from the additives.
This is the best video I've come across when it comes to talking about water purification. Thank you!
Good video . The weak and arrogant will be out of the way first . It takes some research to learn survival , even if a limited amount . Tidbits like this can change everything . Thanks friend !
Charzey lol. Invaded. Stfu. There are over 140 million armed Americans. With over 300 million firearms. Wouldn’t happen.
The weak and arrogant still deserve to live. Please help and serve others as much as you can to make sure we all survive this attack on humanity. God Bless and be well. 🙏❤🇺🇸
@@jjcruz750 this comment is more of adding to your comment, to put it in perspective the entire US Military has something like 4 million firearms, food for thought.
@@cryptojoe1100 I'm also pretty sure that in a disaster, those in the military will be the ones who survive.
I have read through a lot of the comments, we are all on the same page I’m thankful for you sir. we all need these life saving information in these times that we are living in.
Thank you, Blessings!!
Knew this works but nice to see the dosage rate for small water quantities. It can't be stressed enough to remove the original label from your dropper. Glad you did it although it wasn't mentioned. There are far too many instances of folks getting household products mixed up because the are in similar containers. Drops of chlorine in you eyes from container thought to be eye drops would be devastating!
Valid point!!
Very good I was wanting to know how to use bleach in disinfecting water. Thanks very much.
Very important to remember to remove the original label and relabel , as you did , so someone doesn't accidently put bleach in their eye . I once saw a guy take several large gulps of gasoline out of a Gator Aid bottle . He ran around in circles for five minutes and then fell down . He wasn't dead , I think he ran out of gas !
I would say let it sit with the cap off so the bleach evaporates out
I would agree
@Alisha Thompson Steel Calm down dear, bleach just adds a bit of disinfecting oxygen to do the sterilization, then evaporates
@Alisha Thompson Steel This is exactly what your municipal water departments use to purify your tap water. It's perfectly safe when used properly. If you really do care to read, you can read this to learn more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_chlorination
Its not going to evap out...
Scientiae Magicae Ah.... yes it will. Chlorine will leave the water very quickly as a gas. Read up on it.
I really like my Sawyer filter, but in certain areas with springs and/or high quality water I love the ease of bleach. A small dropper weighs nothing and it's a great backup.
For the preppers... Poolshock is a good source of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite, 5 pounds will purify 20 years of drinking water (from rain or ground water) for a family of four.
I was telling someone just a few days ago that I remember reading years ago that you could purify water w/ bleach & I just now stumbled across your video what a coincidence, Thankyou for sharing & May God Bless
Yes sir! Truth
Thanks for the very simple to understand video.
Thank you for clear, factual, usable information. I've heard 20 times "you can purify water with bleach." Once or twice, I've heard how much, amid lots of blah, blah, but it didn't stick. NOW, its simple. (Smart people in 1 thing can be slow learners in others.) Happy surviving!
I’m am so happy i came across your channel!! Because I used a humidifier and I was wondering if I could put a couple drops of bleach in the water to keep the water from getting smiley. I have noticed it only takes two to three days for the water to start getting smiley. And figured if they can add bleach to swimming pools it should be okay to add a little to my humidifier to cut down on bacteria 🦠 I’m so thankful for you. May God blessed you always.
Thank you for the very kind words and support that you give my channel blessings to you from Arizona
T.y. but I would recommend that the folks who try this method use a glass container instead of plastic💚
you don't want to bug out with glass containers - heavier and can break
True But id still rather do it in glass container💚
@@davidmantis9223 glass is certainly superior in many ways
i'd rather drink evian ..but this is survival you use what you can
The extremely diluted amount of bleach won't really cause any damage to plastic, if you're worried about plastic in general the amount of estrogenic compounds you get from plastic water bottles is frankly minimal when you take into account just how much plastic we come in contact with every day of our lives.
Thank you so much for sharing. May the most high bless you sir. 💚 I needed something simple like this to share with preppers.
Good public service. Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your video. This answered a very important and timely question I had. Bless you for all your fine efforts.
I've used Clorox for decades to purify water while camping. 2 drops per liter, mix, wait 20 minutes. Oh, he just said that. Depending on water quality. How's your bleach supply?
I know you made this video a few years ago but I am grateful for this information because the city we live in messed with their water system and we keep getting sick from our tap water. I am going to try this and see if it helps at all.
I wouldn't suggest this as a long term solution! Thank you!
I've run into too many people who say things like: "real men don't have to worry about the water", "I only drink from really clear untouched steams" - Giardia can really ruin a trip - and at least a week to recover.
When a "real man" comes down with amoebic dysentery - bilharzia / snail fever and a variety of other illnesses caused from unclean water , the real man will get his act together .
I came down with amoebic dysentery in SE Asia and lost 12 pounds of body weight in 2 weeks . After several doses of antibiotics , it took 6 weeks to totally recover .
Treat that water - boil it and treat it again . ATB
I guess folks just cant imagine that animals poop and die upstream in any water source.
Way back when, they used to call it beaver fever when you got sick from drinking water that had (shit) in it in the lakes and streams.
I have had giardia. Not a lot of fun. Took me a six month period to FULLY recover from it, and I was younger and healthier, then. ALWAYS treat water you plan to drink, even if it looks clear and clean, fresh from a mountain stream, or lake.
Thanks for the refresher course, it's been quite a few years since I last went camping and I couldn't remember the ratio.
Off topic: I went to the local grocery store a few days ago and as a result of over 45 years of smoking, I occasionally get a dry "smoker's hack". Well, a small bout hit me at the store and being trained in precautions after working 15 years as a CNA, covered my mouth using my shoulder/upper arm.
After only about 5-6 coughs, I looked around and the reaction on people's faces was, IMO, comically horrified. I swear I probably would have gotten a calmer response if I had pulled out an AK and began open firing.
weird flex but ok
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Great tip Skeet. I knew that you could use bleach to purify water but I had no idea how much to use. Thanks for the info brother.
Thank you for making it so clear and simple
Excellent idea using the visine bottle.......easy to carry in a backpack. Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻❤️🙏🏻
What I learnt today:
i) Don't stir water in a bottle. Instead, "agitate" it. 😛
ii) Beard can be used a pre-filter for water mixed with visible impurities.
Cheers! 👍
I was wanting to see you drink it man... Thanks for the tip bro 😎
Pretty simple and easy for SHTF.
You still sleeping?
all these guys trying to get in this girls pants over youtube lmfao, what a bunch of losers
Great thanks.
I remember my folk's doing this to our water when we were on a cattle drive or hunting trip in the mountains. We wouldn't be able to carry water with us except for what we could carry in our canteens on our horses.
But I wasn't sure exactly much bleach to put in.
Id ask them but ..hey've all passed away.
May the rest in peace.
Thanks again.
Peace, love and health be with you Brother.
KEH 🇨🇦
Very very cool saving money is awesome. I know to re label the dropper like you did myself but would have liked to see you stressed that more for safety just so everyone didn’t forget to do that. It would be bad if someone mixed their eye dropper up with the bleach one. Thanks
Thank you very much. You are a good human being. Amen.
I remember living on the farm when I was a kid in the late 1940's we had well water, Dad told me the well was 24 feet deep and it was 14 feet wide, I have no Idea where got Idea, but when the well would run over and stop running after a heavy rain, he poured a gallon of bleach in well it set for 3 days, with him pumping water for 2 or 3 hours and putting into back into the well, then he took a sample of water to town to have it tested to be safe or not.
I recall something about that. My grandparents had a well. They would know its depth and width because they dug it themselves.
@Jerry Hudnall
Sounds like a lot of labor, pumping water that long! That’ll I keep you in good shape, eh? :)
Never thought about the empty eye drops bottle
Real bad idea if you ask me. Vision impaired, reach for visine. Put bleach in eyes. There are many other dropper dispensers magnitudes safer to use.
Be sure to rinse the remaining visine out completely. It’s a very strong purgative if ingested.
MAKE SURE YOU RE-LABEL THE BOTTLE! (don't ask me how I know this).The Visine bottle works well though.
Dond forget that bleach expires i will recommend putting the expiration date of the bleach.great vid thanks for the info
This video is what's called "just in time delivery"! I was just wondering today, after buying bleach incase the water needs treated and needed to know the ratio. Perfect timing. Perhaps my phone actually picks up on my thoughts. Haha
Thank you. That was very useful information in these troubling times.
Great Advice!! Thanks! But how in the world did you get the bleach inside the Visine bottle??
Single mom… thanks for simple explanation very much appreciated
Thank you for the kind words and support, I was a single dad! Blessings
Thanks dear man. You're a literal life saver !♡♡♡
Thank you for the valuable information. Now I know how to use the bleach trick.
Good really good video.....guess some men have not fill their canteen and walk up stream to find a dead animal....that will make a believer of treating all water....you never waste your message always on point! Thanks for real world facts....yes I did and yes I treat all water since 1977. No didn't get sick but I was lucky not smart. Big brain yuk even today..ha ha. I was 8 days out alone radio down it could have end my life. God helps thoses who learn guess he gave me a break...the animals had been poison a week before, very ripe...treat all water. Thank You!
This was extremely helpful. I just bought a vietnam era 36 gallon lyster(lister) bag so I worked out the bleach to water ratio to be 1 1/2tsp for a full 36 gallons of clear water or 2-3tsp for cloudy water
Good one! Just a note about brown coffee filters, they leave an unsavoury taste !!, fabric is better than processed paper.
Good info! That’s what we did in Boy Scouts! I wonder, have you ever used pool shock to make a working bleach solution? I’ve read about it online but I’ve never actually tried it. It’s a good way to have a long term supply of bleach.
I prefer the tablets (though you don't know the concentration at that point).
Thanks for the info survival tips are always useful
Thanks, my household was recently under a boil water order. I have a zero water filter, (which removes most chemicals) but it not safe with microbes "go figure". So I took my tap water added bleach let it sit for awhile then ran it through the filter to try and remove any chemicals from the bleach. It appears to be a good solution to boiling my drinking water. I am refining the method.
Thanks, my household was recently under a boil water order. I have a zero water filter, (which removes most chemicals) but it not safe with microbes "go figure". So I took my tap water added bleach let it sit for awhile then ran it through the filter to try and remove any chemicals from the bleach. It appears to be a good solution to boiling my drinking water. I am refining the method.
Good to know.
Hope I never have to use it in a SHTF situation.
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I knew this was possible is chlorine. Awesome video bro. Pool shock is highest concentrate.
very nice video. I use to use liquid bleach to purify water but liquid bleach is only good for one year but tablets are good for much longer periods. Lets hope none of us ever have to use this method because we have to. It is a useful way to purify water, but not my first choice.
Awesome video informative and succinct. Thank you.
Thanks for that great video. What about storing water in glass jars long term as a prepping method?
Thank you for the kind words. That's a great question I'm not completely sure about that. I think you can do that
Knowledge is everything 👍
Also check that the clorox bottle says "disinfectant", not all do say that.
Very useful info,thanks very much sir.
Thank you sir for this valuable lesson
Thank you for enjoying!
Hello my outdoors friend, thank you for sharing this vital information. All the best to you. 🤗
Great video for beginner preppers.
Great Video Brotha! I carry my bleach in a eyedrop container as well when I go on trips. I only use this style of disinfecting water when its a clearer water source if it's dirty or has an odor I use sawyer filter. I always carry at least 4 ways to disinfect water in my pack though.
Thumbs up in like 3 seconds this guy seemed cool
Thank you! I have 1547 video's Please look around and tell a friend!
Good info. Short and to the point. A+
Great bit of essential survival knowledge
Short and sweet. Indeed this was helpful.
I like the use of the empty Visine bottle. I have a couple that are not empty yet, but will keep one and label it, as you have shown. Maybe you could do a video showing the results of using those suggested mediums of filtration, starting off with obvious dirty and cloudy water. I hesitate to give details because of the times, we live in, but I often practice, filtering water from one source in particular, through old but clean T-shirts and worn flannel shirts, and other worn cloth. Practicing these things, these processes, opens up your mind to a whole bunch of awareness. 5 gallon buckets are good for practice and usage. Keep lids and use lids. Just think about anything that uses a filter, example vacuum cleaners, or your furnace, your AC unit, and so on, revisit those materials, and how they trap particles and dirt. I uses old window screens, AC filter screens, over buckets to keep big stuff out like leaves. When filtering into buckets, I use layers of pasta strainers, with cloth laid into and overlapping the pasta strainers. Good results, for my non drinking purposes. Understanding filtration the gradients of charcoal, stone and sand, as with a rain barrel, is all good basic knowledge to possess!
Thanks brother, i always wondered about the bleach drops you made it simple. 🇺🇸
Sir, nice and easy to understand information! Thanks 👍
Great video I wish you would have added if a person doesnt have a means to measure the bleach and have to use the bleach cap. Thx
Will do in a future video... thank you!
Thanks much! Wrote it all down cause you won't have internet in most shtf scenarios.
Just keep in mind. Even bleach will not make water polluted with toxic chemicals safe to drink so take a good look at your source. Good vid.
Exactly what I needed to know. Thank you so much for sharing!
Simple straight forward, good info to know , cone coffee filters may work best. Read the scroll below ,the bottle cap needs to have agitated bleach water poured in to it prior to sitting for one half hour or more.
Very good advice--thank you for educating us !
Very helpful for a good record, thanks
excellent and highly practical advice, thank you
This is an awesome tip and so useful!
Thanks man ….really appreciate from Pakistan 👍👍👍
Thank you so much for this. I have been wondering how much bleach it would take and now I know!
I also carry a pill bottle full of citric acid. after I wait the 30 min (clear) hour (cloudy) I add a quarter of a teaspoon of the citric acid and you will not taste the bleach in the water if you are like me with sensitive pallet. as well little vit c never hurts lol great info man stay safe
Doesn't the chlorine gas combine with the acid to make a poison gas? Or is that in larger quantities?
@@brachasilvermanmitnick7986 large doses will but we are talking small amounts. I have drank gallons of it and am still kicking. Yep, still kicking tried walking through a wall and failed so we are still good lol. Cheers
Household bleach is not a good choice for water sanitization. Especially if you're buying the cheap stuff. And even more so if you're buying cheap bleach from the dollar store. The reason being is that household bleach has a finite shelf life of only about a year. And if you buy it from the dollar store it's probably old already, that's why it's in the dollar store. The better option is to buy 73% Calcium Hypochlrite granules. This can be purchased at any pool supply store in 1 lb bags for about $6. One 1 lb bag will sanitize 10,000 gallons of water and has an indefinite shelf life when stored properly. According to the U.S. Army "Sanitary Control and Survielllance of Field Water Supplies" manual(TB MED577)a bleach/sanitizing solution can be made by mixing 2 tbs Calcium Hypochlorite granules with 3 cups water and using this solution to sanitize water for drinking by adding 8 drops per gallon and letting it sit for 30 minutes before drinking. Plus having a couple bags on hand in case the SHTF you'll have all the drinking water you'll ever need andyou'll also be able to help countless people have safe drinking water making you a valuble asset to a group. You'll also have the option of using it for barter or trade as people will be needing safe drinking water. Just imagine how valuble just 2 tbs could be worth in a SHTF situation. 2 tbs is enough to sanitize 1,875 gallons of water. Imagine how valuble that would be to someone without a way to make water safe to drink. Obviously helping those in need is the right thing to do and for a small investment for several bags or even a 5 lb container you could be that valuble asset making you the person that everyone is willing to help in any way they can. Providing safe drinking water would probably get you fed or sheltered, fueled, who knows what else. On the other hand there's always going to be someone who's a bad, evil or untrustworthy person that you don't want around or in your group/clan and doesn't deserve the free help, but will probaly have something of value to trade or barter. And in such a situation safe drinking water will be VERY valuble. So a mere 2 tbs of granules could be a VERY valule trade item.
@ Mike Lysic Outstanding Advice! THANKYOU!!!!
@@micktezz1561 how can I get hypocholorate calcium
Mike Lysic
In real SHTF scenarios, someone will just rob you of the stuff once people know you have it, especially after you tell someone how to use it properly. What makes a person truly valuable and indispensable is knowing hard to learn truly helpful skills - like being a doctor, or being a welder, for example.
Just sayin’!
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You are right on many levels, but you need to be super careful how you store, meant for swimming pool, products. I ignorantly stored a very small bag of pool chemical,swapped into,
poured into a plastic jug, part way, with room enough to stuff a couple small plastic measuring spoons. It all went to chlorine gas which is SO dangerous, it can be deadly. I had it in a cabinet, for a year, and I began smelling chlorine.
I had to get rid of it, and the potency of the gas while getting rid of it, was intense. I won't say where
I dumped it, but after, dumping the small pile, outside, and time for gas to dissipate, I slowly dissolved it with water.
It actually slightly melted the jug, and discolored the measuring spoons.
Be careful with pool chemicals. I do not store any after that. What I did store, I had for water sterilization. But until I get a better grasp on pool chemicals, I will stick to
bottled bleach.
THANK YOU BROTHER GOD bless don't STOP. I definitely learned something today
Good advice brother. You never know what nasty things are going on upstream from you. ATB...
Great news and thanks for the nicely detailed instructions.
Excellent information thank you very much
A 2 pack of the 1 Micron 4"x8" Singed Polyester Felt Filter Bag PESP3S size 3 cost $4.95 on Amazon. It's a bag that filters water at 1 micron and can be reused as much as a person wants. Mark one side as clean and the other as dirty. Then after it dries you can turn it inside out and shake a lot of the debre it caught from it. Later at home wash it. When dry the bag has a slow flow threw it , after it gets wet it has a fast flow. They come in all different micron filtering sizes. I like them as a pre filter for swamp water and all the stuff that's in it.
great advice for emergencies, thank you
This simple video is one of my favorites, I had to revisit it once again. Our river behind my house has mercury in it from the mining days 1800's. They tell us only eat one fish a week out of there. Is there a way to purify this water to drink?
Check out distillation of water which should eliminate chemicals. easy way to distill water, fill a large pot and boil water. Pot is covered with a domed lid, put upside down. The steam will collect on the inverted dome and drip back down. Important part : have a heavy glass jar in the center of the pot of boiling water and the steam will drip and collect into the glass jar. This is your distilled water.
Very clear and concise. Thank you
It looks like you're using gel bleach, and I've heard that is not good to use that kind of bleach for drinking water, 🤔
What's the difference?
What a doll, humanitarian! Thank-You so much. Your video is exactly what I wanted to know for a just incase, never know , what if this happens. And in the smaller quantity of available tainted, questionable water. Your video showed up in my feed as if You Tube read my mind in only two days, lol. Perfect I am grateful.
Full-fledged RUclips videos for things we used to learn as children. Lololololololol 😂. I don't know why, but this reminds me of having the teach people which direction to screw things in. 😆
This definitely seems like a great short-term solution. Is it safe for long-term use in the event of a famine?
I bought eye dropper bottles and were made of glass. I way over thought it!!
Old Eye drop bottle.... very clever!!
What you're using is way better than plastic!