Newly Discovered PRIMITIVE WATER FILTER! 100% Effective
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- According to the CDC, waterborne disease killed over six thousand people last year in the US alone. Waterborne pathogens such as e. coli, cryptosporidium, and giardia are prevalent in many surface water sources. There are several primitive methods for water purification including surface wells (gypsy well), boiling, and other primitive water filters which utilize some combination of course substrate, plant materials, and charcoal. I recently found a research article from MIT (link below) that showed the xylem tissue of gymnosperms effectively filtered out all bacteria from contaminated water. In this video I set up a filter using those findings but also, using a never before seen method using grape vines as both a siphon and filter in one. A lab analysis confirmed the presence of e. coli bacteria in the water to be filtered. The water that passed through the grape vines had no detectable e. coli bacteria! You can't do any better than that with the best whole house water filter. This has practical uses in backpacking, survival situations, wilderness living, camping, etc.
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When I show this to my friends and they ask where I learned it. I'm going to say "I heard it through the grapevine"
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take your upvote you SOB
Every time I think there's still a piece of modern technology that I should bring, there's something in nature that can replace it in a pinch.
very true
@Boosh_Craftsmoke signals? 😅
Nature provides all tools necessary for survival
Smoke signals mah boi@Boosh_Craft
@Boosh_Craft The magnetic field around earth is weakening very fast, which is why we now see auroras in places we have never seen before.
One day soon, a solar flare, a solar emp, if you like, will take out earths electrical grid. Coms will be down, for good. Elecrical anything will be out, for good.
Tell me again how dumb it is to know more primitive ways of dealing with issues. And yes, you wont be saving anyone but yourself, your loved ones, and maybe your community.. but without help of electricity.
There's a surviving technique here in Brazil: we actually drink from a vine called "cipó d'água" (Doliocarpus rolandri). They literally dip water when cut. Safe water and plenty of it.
Just as a curiosity, here in Brazil a lot of people, including myself, use clay filters. They were invented here by portuguese and italian immigrants in the beggining of the 20th century. It's considered one of the best filters in the world. And when you use them with the clay container as well (as tradition) the water comes out in a very pleasant temperature and with this quite distinct mineral taste. It's just awesome how simple materials and creativity people can solve such complicated problems.
Excelent video, man! I enjoyed it very much.
Thank you for sharing
Can I buy these clay filters? If so, where from?
@@boreduser12 in Brazil you can find them everywhere. Even in grocery stores.
As regards to US and other places I have no idea.
If you Google "filtro de barro" you'll see it's picture. You can try to use the Google image search followed by your country name or region and see if it shows something.
I'm writing this right in front of mine.
The only downside I see is that it collects some mold on its outside due to the "sweat" it disperses through the clay. You need to clean it constantly.
The filters need to get changed every 3 to 6 months. If you need, you can clean the filter with running water to extend it's lifetime for a few weeks more.
If you never clean it or change it, its pores will get filled with dirt and it won't dripp clean water to the lower part, eventually.
Best of luck in your search.
If you can't find it in your country, maybe there's a business opportunity there. They are really cheap to make and will sell well in locations were people don't want to spend a small fortune on fancy models that will do the same or worse.
Although, many people will dismiss it due to being too lazy to keep filling it up with water every 2 days and cleaning and changing it's filter a few times a year. 🤷🏾♂️
@@boreduser12 And that Mold @rafaelroma1657 talked about only forms if you use the traditional clay cointainer, of course. Because the filter itself doesn't.
@@rafaelroma1657 Incrível como filtros de barro não são tão comuns ao redor do mundo, mano. É maravilhoso. Tanto na simplicidade quando na qualidade da água.
Every time I say "I need to put my phone down" something like THIS pops up and keeps me hooked. Im afraid I'll miss something as valuable as this.
😂right?
A tip for you: use a laptop when at home and you'll cut off Google on about 80% feeding off you.
you need to get a life
the FOMO is real, you know you can save videos for later and you won't be stuck in a swamp anytime soon
@@vpaul4374Don't ask me how I found out there's only 1,000 videos permitted maximum on the built-in "watch later" playlist..... I now maintain two additional playlists of stuff maybe I'll watch one day
My grandfather taught me this, the trick it keeping the edge of the vine cut fresh, if it dries up it stops, just retrim the end and it starts going again. He lived in SW Florida, born in 1910, fisherman by trade.
That's amazing!
I wonder if this can be used with saltwater. Would a Vine or even a cut piece of pine allow freshwater through it and leave the salt behind. I would think something like a mangrove certainly would because a mangrove must be leaving the salt behind in the roots and allowing the fresh water up to the top. If that's true then you have a desalinization filter as well as a bacteria filter and that's even more game-changing.
Your grandfather knew but we had to get an MIT study to remember what old timers knew.
Pine works, but it tastes like pine, the vines were faster, we used it on brackish water, so in-between salt and fresh, I don't think it would work of full sea water, it would rupture the cells of the xylem, maybe something like sea grapes of other salt tolerant species might work? Interesting project. I don't live near the coast anymore, maybe next time I'm down there I'll try it.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing.
This is one of the most important survival videos in the last ten years. Bravo, absolute genius.
Now go try living off 1 cup of water a day, and if you mess that up, you get parasites. Its an interesting idea, but that's it.
Exactly.
I totally concur. This is truly amazing. Thank you Sir. Nice work.
hello, does this also help to clean tap water?
@@Evil-La-Poopatap water should be tested daily by water utilities dept locally
As a plant scientist, I have been taight the direction of travel matters very much. Similar to how our legs get blood back to our heart, there are mechanisms in place to prevent it flowing back the other direction.
I think you may be right
@@clayhayeshunter
the trained scientist MAY be right...
@@user-zq5wp5mk4vdid you want him to disagree?
Gravity and the sealed vine siphon effect in play here.
As a layman, I know this as well, but what I want to know is why are you calling yourself a plant scientist instead of botanist?
Man! This video should be shown in every school on earth. Thank you sir for sharing this knowledge with us.
The evil elites plus would not let that happen
I’ve worked in the water industry for over 20 years and I’m quite familiar with water testing. This was a very well put together very accurately explained video. It’s hard to find good solid information on sometimes. Well done.
Yes! absolutely.
Agreed 100%!
can yall filter out all the drugs and estrogen pills that are goin into the municipal water supply if so please explain why pychosis, men thinking their women, and many other health problems occur from what the water industry CANT filter out
wanna see this with salt water next
@@feelinghealingfrequences7179 agreed. Like I said. my unit can handle seawater, but the final stage of my setup is distilling.
THIS IS SURVIVAL INFO...not what 95% of people post, which is just how to buy something and use it.
EXCELLENT JOB SIR!!!
exactly! litterall a life saver in some areas of the world!
and everybody always has a electric tape on them
How would you know what tree or vine to use or doesn't it matter as long as it is healthy. I live in Western Australia. Thank you for your easy to use info. Natural is best and cheapest.
While working in the jungle in New Guinea in 1973 building pipelines, my company issued me a small igloo water cooler. Being hot and working hard, I would drink the all the water in the cooler by lunch time. Since I would fill my cooler in the morning with ice and water. There would be ice in the cooler by lunch time but no water. The natives showed me a source of potable water. There were large vines as large as my arm growing from the jungle floor to the tree tops these vine some time have sage in them 6 or 8 feet from the ground that resembled a U. Using a machete I cut the U out of the vine the cut the U in half, sharpen one end of the U and could get a quart of clean clear drinkable water. I noticed that the older vines produced a slightly wood taste but still very drinkable. Since Me and my crew were flown out every morning by helicopter, getting back to camp for a drink of water was not possible, so drinking vine water was very common and no one to my knowledge ever got sick or had any problems drinking water cfrom the vines.
@@kennetharntson5912wow that’s an incredible adventure! Can we be neighbors?❤
Went through 2 DOD SERE courses and neither taught this technique. It was decades ago but still.... Pretty cool.
Really? This method is listed in a late 1960s jungle SERE booklet that I have (been a while since I've read it so I don't recall the specific publication number offhand), along with a bunch of other interesting techniques.
You can boil it after filtering it for an extra layer of protection to get rid of any other form of life that may sneaked through
My son and I watched this, and he wants to make a variation of this for his science fair project for next year. Very cool demonstration.
Please do not let hour child drink water filtered like that. Your cvild life is worth more than following random stranger crazy advice.
@@hervevazeilles3790 🤓🤓🤓
@@hervevazeilles3790First off, its OUR child, not hour child, second what would make you think they would drink the water? Lastly, I don't think MIT is exactly the same as random strangers.
@@hervevazeilles3790 That's not a crazy advice, It's well filtered enough so your immune system can basically deal safely with the rest. Only problem would be dissolved chemical/metal contaminants *I guess* but that should only be bad long term. I bet that our city water is worse to drink than that filtered out water from the creek with all the drugs and hormones in it.
@@aviko9560I agree This water he filtered is a lot clearer than what I pay my local government to supposedly clean and sanitize for human consumption at my house. I am scared to drink this water from my local water department. I really hate taking a shower in it but I have no other choice.
Great way to “generate” water while you’re away from camp doing other things. Knowing you’ve got clean water waiting for you when you get back is a big mood booster.
100%
10 minutes after the video, I'm brainstorming whether 300 vines could be fashioned into a shower... 🤔
@@mattmanreturns5307 wouldnt filtered and boiled water be good enough for a shower?
Damn I'm glad I live in a area where even out in the woods that I don't need to filter and boil water for a shower.
@clayhayeshunter
Superb video sir.
I learned a lot .
Thanks for all your hard work, honour and integrity.
Kind regards from England.
Very cool, particularly the simplicity of the cypress tree setup
I am genuinely amazed. Where there's water, there's life.
HANDS DOWN - This is the most important video I have ever seen . . . There isn't even a close second. We salute you Sir!
Impressed me! I just subscribed so I don't miss anything! Thanks for sharing!
Yes
Same! Salute. New sub
Oh yeah?... you can make an oven using earthen clay
Very very practical as well as can be even life saving
I read a study some years ago done outside of Chicago along the lakeshore using willow trees. Willow trees are particularly good at removing contaminants and the study was done for the purposes of removing toxins from land. Both the soil surrounding the trees and the tree leaves were tested with no contaminants found. The tree roots were also forced to go deeper using tubing. Pretty exceptional stuff - there are so many uses for plants in camp settings. Thanks for sharing this vid, this is very useful.
It's ironic that most Willow Trees grow not very far from a water source like a pond or lake, or river. As kids we used to have quite a few of them around our neighborhood because we had a river near by.
Do you hv to boil the water too after this or willow tree method??
@debrasaltzman901 you do NOT need to boil the water from willow, pine, or grapevine. To be extra safe, to kill any viruses that will pass through the xylem, just place the jar in sunlight for a few hours.
Как ива может помочь получить чистую воду ? Методом на видео?
I find it hard to believe the tannins in willow doesn't end up in the water, maybe they need heat in order to release?
The knive carving the cypress wood like it's butter combined with that metallic spund made my brain tingle
and my groin
YOU are amazing! This should be taught in the public schools.
completely agree - so much should be taught that is not
No, it shouldn't.
I appreciate you stopping and chatting with my sons and I at the hardware store today. It really made their day👍
Made mine too😉
@@clayhayeshunter
My son wanted to make sure you knew that he won his playoff game that night and won today. Championship game on Tuesday ⚾️👍
Most wholesome interaction I saw on the internet today.
Made my day.
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Out of all the "natural" water filtering ideas, this by far is my favourite. Thank you.
Ideas ????? Who came up with this. You think he did ???
He didn’t say he invented, he said the man informed him of it. The video itself referenced the university study which did the science.
@@thermologo3451 come on man, you really wanna go that route?
First saw you on “Alone” but I really love and am grateful for your channel. PLEASE keep making videos!
You’re a genius Clay! Good work.
The fact that this is easily scalable and only requires time is freaking genius. Make 20 of these and you can filter enough water for a family. Great stuff!
Absolutely!
Just cut a two inch grape vine about five feet above ground and bend it into a container. It will fill a five gallon bucket overnight if you keep the cut trimmed. This is a survival method known for centuries. It's also possible to cut a section of vine and carry it with you, drinking from one end. It will give you a couple ounces per foot.
How many containers are people carrying around in the woods?
Hell as long as a grape vine can be someone with an acre and a half or more could grow more then enough and if you multiplex that across neighborhoods for miles this would or could be smart
Water bottles decompose so slowly that during an apocalypse, would be easy to find to do the hammer-in technique!
Water processing plants use cattails, totora, water hyacinth, and duckweed, which can almost completely separate water from sewage and sediment. Add the right plants, rock, and sand, you can turn muck into a pure well/aquifer
Bioremediation is so fascinating
That was my first thought after watching this. How many other plants can do this.
Pine bark
Aquarium owner here and yes duckweed is a MONSTER against nitrates. I keep it in all my tanks
Cattails... Interesting. I cycle on a trail that has streams along each side. I'm going to cut a few stems to see what comes out.
this is the type of content i've been looking for. subscribed.
This has to be one of the best ideas I have heard on RUclips. Clay, I tip my hat to you Sir !!!!!
I remember seeing that MIT report when it came out in 2014 and thought it was very interesting so I uploaded a video titled "Scientists Find Natural Water Filter in Tree Branches" with a link to the article on the Business Insider website. I'm glad to see you took the time to actually test it out.
Scientists didn't discover it God made it possible.
that method of cleaning the water is in the bible. 2 Esdras 1:23
Praise Yah!
@@gemcanyonproductions5660 Making something and discovering something isn't the same thing. Example - My girlfriend can bake me a cake and I can discover it in the fridge.
@@gemcanyonproductions5660 I was curious so I went and found a Bible containing the Apocrypha and looked this up. It doesn't contain this method. It says "I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet." In the context, it is clearly referring back to Exodus 15:25 "And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet." It describes Moses throwing a tree into a body of water or a spring or river, and the water miraculously becoming drinkable.
@@heard3879 thanks for clearing that up...we all werent wondering
@@heard3879well, most stuff in religious texts is not to be taken literally, most of is a pretty useful metaphor, or a riddle of some kind. (although people keep taking it literally all the time, we are all fools after all).
I was thinking you would pick up a hint of Chardonnay or Merlot with the water filtered through the grape vine.
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Lol you can eat the leaves has a grapeskin flavor thought that might happen.
What would happen, wen use saltwater?
@@mgeller854they're so good wrapped around seasoned baked lamb and rice
Anything coming through the grapevine is just a rumor.
Thank you so much for investing your time and share your results and thoughts
The second I saw the image I was like “huh, that would work, wouldn’t it…”
Just one of those things that seems so obvious AFTER it’s pointed out.
Someone should send this to Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross and other organizations around the world to promote this method of clean water. I am so impressed.
You want them to take the trees and vines away??? 🤔🤪🤣
@@TinHatter419if you value vines and trees over human life then there is something wrong with you. I can understand not wanting to cut down trees for human greed but to preserve life is another thing altogether. You arent being goofy your being stupid
@@TinHatter419lol you can literally use the branches you cut off to trim up the trees. 🤯
So everyone can cross the border hydrated
Doctors without borders is an NGO that is stationed in Latin America assisting and promoting the invasion of the US right now. So maybe not!
This vid is pure gold. What a great science lesson I can do with my daughters for their homeschooling. God bless you Clay.
a huge amount of appreciation to brother Clay for showing this, truly inspiring
This is great. I have never seen this on any survival show, nor have I seen a better explanation of the plant water filtration process.
Crush up and rinse clean some charcoal from your camp fire. Put it between two layers of cotton or wool, (you can use a clean sock). Secure it over the top of the jar for clean water. Now when the water that gets filtered from the cypress or grape vine drips through the charcoal filter, it will be free of viruses as well as being free of bacteria.
Any idea how to remove heavy metals or chemicals?
And itll taste great!
@@heythavethats rhe charcoals job
@@heythavecharcoal
Boiled water.. level exposed to the air, capturing the steam......@@heythave
I'm impressed that over a million viewers in just six days are interested in this experiment! 🔥💯😎👍
That is so cool! Thank you so much for doing this test. Very important information!
Amazing. I’m really interested in seeing lab results before and after with primitive charcoal and sand filters you always see people do. I’ve looked in the past on RUclips and couldn’t find anyone doing a lab analysis.
Between this video and the coyote well you showed this is probably the absolute best water filtering related content anywhere PERIOD
10/10 Clay! This is game changing stuff
An incredible takeaway:
If you are filtering out e coli, then you can extrapolate that the same filter will be removing other contaminants of equal and larger sizes.
It's a micron function. Effectively, if it filters out dime sized contaminants, then you can assume it filters out pennies, nickels and quarters👍
Bingo
neat
Coin sized contaminants is not the right metaphor 😅 you’re correct on micron filter yet the take away should be you can afford to change these micron filters.......saving you a lot of coins for the inconvenience of time spent.
@@mgeller854 Correct. Just a simile for illustration. Yes, a coin is quite the opposite end of the size spectrum.
@@mgeller854i don’t think you understand how metaphors work
Laboratory Technologist and Metrologist here - this is awesome.
I think the reason the vines had that flavor is because the first water to come out was the three feet of mineral and sugars the vine was holding.
And a bit of the bark submerged to soak in it.
I have some of the commercial filtration systems and you could always rerun it through those if you wanted to but I don't really know that you would need to. I found this very informative.
When I was a teen I worked harvesting wild grape vine for craft wreath projects. In the spring when the sap was up when you cut the vines sap would pour out. I often would enjoy a sip or two. It had a very refreshing grape/water taste.
This is one of the most important survival videos in the last ten years. Bravo, absolute genius.+1
Excellent findings. Really appreciate the knowledge and thanks for sharing
I think gymnosperms are safe to try while angiosperm, especially vine species, sometimes have pretty thick xylem and you can literally use them as straw. And the reason why "filtered" liquid by gymnosperm stem looks clean, is the great surface area along the xylem tube, it might be clean at first but some nasty stuff will go through eventually.
That was the single most entertaining, informative, educational, USEFUL thing I've ever seen on a screen.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 And I'm 56..
Outstanding!
Wonder what Bamboo which I have seen near dirty water sources and cut to reveal clean “ water” a few feet up the plant!!
But I did nothing about noticing it !!
You’re the man !
We’ll discover a water purifier which can provide clean potable water for poor people without certain expenses preventing it.
additionally, we developed an open source water filter with moringa. Take a look and try it.
This is the best water filtering video I have ever found. Thank you so much!
I read that 6,000 children die every day from dehydration due to diarrhea. This knowledge could save thousands of lives. I don't have the means to distribute this information, but I hope and pray someone else can get this important task done. Maybe that person is watching this now!
Yea it’s mainly in Africa and India though. Especially Africa though. Most people can’t boil the water or filter it there. Idk about 6,000 kids a day though.
Idiots in other cou tries are who you are talking about poverty is the outcome of stupid people who never had the wheel and never raised live stock enabling them is unatural.
@@robertsudano4304 6K kids a day is reasonable when you realize 1.6 billion people on Earth do not have reliable access to safe water. As someone who has spent significant time in East Africa drilling water wells for villages, 6K a day might be low.
Here's a secret.... They don't want them to know this knowledge. They could have helped a thousand ways to Sunday but they help in appearance only
@@paulrun111 precisely, they're beside themselves we have access to it...
The pine tree gives an interesting flavor to the water and the needle of some pines makes a nice tea full of natural vitamin C.
Yes, but do yourself a favor and use white pine for the tea... The other pines also make tea, but their tea tastes like turpentine.
Agreed! I have made that while out deer hunting.
@@bretjohnson6188 our ancestors used turpentine as a natural antiparasitic. It's actually listed in the original Merck medication book from 1899.
But you're right, it'll still taste like turpentine 🤢
@@Eyes0penNoFear We still use turpentine as a treatment for parasites and lyme disease in Appalachia. All passed down from grandparents.
@@truthseeker2222 I'm so glad to find more people who use it!
My father-in-law grew up in Missouri, and he remembers using it as a kid. It fixed a bacterial overgrowth in my gut that was causing a biofilm that blocked nutrient absorption. It's really good stuff.
Well done. Brave man drinking the swamp water. I got beaver fever from the stony river on the west slope of Mt Denali. It was terrible vomiting diarrhea and high fever. Flagill is a good thing to have along for any extended trip.
Surely some of you must've seen old TV documentaries where they've shown people in remote places drinking water from plant vines and similar? For example in the UK check out early David Attenborough TV programmes that were broadcast by the BBC _ he showed indigenous people the TV crew were following getting water refreshment by cutting plants and drinking from the cut end. Obviously this isn't tap or faucet flow but when trekking it provided essential hydration. They also collected water in little vessels in a similar method. This really is just a reminder of known old methods.
There is nothing new under the sun. If it exists now, it existed then. We are dumbed down slaves with smart phones.
IU've seen most ofvthe survival and bushcraft channels and I have to say that what I'm seeing from Clay is beyond next-level in comparison. He gives us not only the methods but the understanding behind them and explains it all well without getting boring in the minutiae of unnecessary details, yet doesn't miss anything important. Subscribing now.
Clay filter
I'am shocked this is not widely know information or taught in schools. Wow, well done sir!
Sadly it doesnt surprise me😢
They busy teaching about the 138th genders and social media 😂
An excellent film, with some of the best life saving information I have seen in a long time. Well done.
Thank you for sharing this! I have genuinely learnt something that is of vital importance here! I appreciate that!
Using the right trees to clean water , why did I not think of that. It's what they do naturally for themselves.
Thanks for doing the experiment, I will add it to my survival playlist. Congrats on 500k! 🎉🙂
excellent idea! but i have heard about clearing of water via roots of trees or bushes...
Ancient knowledge I'm sure @@non9886
If saving your playlist so I can watch them thank you for compiling this information
Your welcome to look 🙂 @@AmorDia-GOAT I started it for Will Survives , handy homestead & survival ideas.
Potentially could be a life-saver in dire circumstances , thanks Mr. Hayes ! ! !
This is sweet and meaningful work. Keep it up. Good man.
Incredible. This is the most valuable video on you tube. I sure hope I don't need to use this method but, I am very appreciative of the knowledge sir!
This is probably the best survival tip in all the story of YT. Clean water from 2 different natural, likely easy to find sources. Thank you sir!
This is actually a great water filtration tip - He is correct: Xylem prevents contaminants from being transferred from the soil to the fruit. The only contaminants that pose any threat following this treatment are dissolved minerals - if the water Ph is between 6.5 and 7.5, those will be minimal. 👍👍
That being said, I assume that this method won't work with salt (sea) water, right?
@@DiaboLusitano I would expect varying success depending on the species of plant .. some are adapted to growing in saline environments, and others are further adapted to drawing up and absorbing the salt (All of the atriplex genus, salsola soda, and a bunch of others I can't recall). Another good tip that occurs to me is to look for indicator species near your water supply, if it is unknown: if the plants growing there love heavily mineralized soils, consider distillation, or finding another source.
Would it filter stuff from algae? I saw a vid saying people on island got sick eating bats coz those bats ate cycad fruits, and the trees have been using water with algae.
Couldn't believe it also, tho I think cycad are toxic on their own.
@@TaLeng2023 Two good questions, back to back! I picked a great time to visit the compy 😊 The toxins in the algae should be contained within their cell walls - unless the cells are ruptured, the water _between_ algae will not be poisoned, and those algae cells are too large to pass through the xylem by far.
I've killed trees by injecting poison into the very parts being used to filter the water, I assume if there's poison in the water, that will be carried through?
This is very valuable information. Thank you!
I live in New Mexico, and use to live in North Carolina. I do know how to collect drinking water in the Desert, but not in the Southern States. It is always a good thing to learn something new. Very informative Video!
you just saved countless lives with this video - I prayed to know what to do with all this water we can't drink and I was kind of upset on how we have set ourselves up to not be able to drink water that hasn't been treated. Thank you brother in spirit!
Thank you, brother!
Umm boil it.
For household use, you can install a UV filter.
It's a stainless steel tube about 18 inches long and has a UV bulb in it. Once the water passes threw the tube all pathogens are no longer alive.
They make them with different flow rates. I have one with a 12 gallon flow rate for whole house service.
Your information is new to me.
Thanks for sharing.
Previous owner installed one in my house. We have a little bit of ferrous iron in our water. I had to laugh when I changed the bulb. Nothing gonna get killed by that iron stained glass sleeve that separates the bulb from the water. I left it unplugged. I'm not cleaning that thing every week. Lol.
I'm wondering, if letting the water sit in the sun wouldn't have the same results, as the UV filter?
@@ridgehilljillie9429 you can send off water to be tested or possibly even at a hospital.
With a few phone calls, I'm sure you could find someone.
Maybe a college. What is the source? If from a well or stream, I would say your main focus would be micro organisms or pathogens even bacteria (just big words I know but have no idea what I'm talking about). I believe it is the intensity or frequency of the light that is most important.
@ridgehilljillie9429 yes if in clear container ..usually glass or zip lock left in direct sunlight for few hours will kill all bad living stuff uv treatment and yes I'm sure the ppl who do these studies will back me up with this ....once filter thru vine .....in glass/plastic (just be mindful some plastic leeches) for few hours ... perfectly safe ready to drink water.
@@ridgehilljillie9429 just for viruses from what i gathered in the video
Love the techniques. Never seen this before. Very Nice.
WOW. Something so simple and overlooked. Thank you for taking your time to share this information. Who knows, you probably saved lives because of sharing this information. Also I hope you pissed off those people that has created something very simple to do the same but are finding ways to market it for outrageous prices and scam people. Thank you again
Thank you so much for teaching this. I can't wait to try this with my husband on our next camping trip! We had no idea the water could be filtered like that, that's awesome!
Came here to potentially call BS and was pleasantly surprised to find that this was both backed up by lab testing in your experiment and also a separate research study. This was pretty neat! RE The concern about waterborne viruses I don’t know if regular backpacking filters can get those either. You can always use a chemical disinfectant to get those if it’s a concern.
Or just boil the water.
My family has been doing this for years. The Anunaki taught us.
Mmmm chemical disinfectant, yummy!!
When the water is clear, just leaving it out in the sun in a plastic bottle works to sterilize it. Ultraviolet radiation in sunlight will kill all pathogen with few hours of direct sunlight, provided the water is clear and container made of material that lets uv through.
Just the information I needed, simple and genius
Literally life saving info for some people, well done sir!
By far, one of the most informative and unique videos I've seen regarding water purification and survival skills in quite some time. Great demonstration, Clay!
I learned at school in the early 80s about how to filter water with rocks and pebbles, also learned to make a water distiller with a pot and piping you can use on a fire. I do have an alcohol distiller and an air-still bit will need power for those. Your info gave me another easier way, thanks. I am a prepper at heart.
It's in our genes to want to survive. Can't trust the government.
Thanks for this.
I never ever thought of this form of purifying water.
Thank you
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This was great! Could you do a follow up on how to identify the correct plants!? 🙏
If we would go back to teaching kids this kind of science there little minds would go crazy with experimentation and discovery. This was wonderful. What an adventure. Thank you
This is awesome! I've known about using cedar or pine branch as a filter but I have yet to try it. Now I'm really motivated to do so.
From what I’ve seen, there’s a lot of variation in how much flow you will get through different pieces. Less dense, faster growing wood seems to do much better. Have fun
Wonder how a maple branch would taste like.
@@clayhayeshunter Bamboo would work well, wouldn't it?
Wow, I want to try this! I work in Water and Wastewater (10yrs) and thought that was a great explanation. Few to none test for viruses for cost and practically but use that MPN method with Fecal coliform and Ecoli as they are an indication that the disinfectant (usually a chlorine based chemical) and any filtration worked. The sample is mixed with a sugary substance and let incubate in a warm environment near body temps for 48 hrs (some newer versions do less) before measured using the manufacturer's method. I would be worried about parasitic worm cysts and would think that if it did . It was one sample but a great demonstration as Science is as much repeatable verification as anything Thank you!
Fantastic video!!!
Life saving information. Thank YOU!!
Hands down the best water video I’ve seen. You’re saving lives.
Questions:
1) how much flow? how long time to make 1 liter of water from 2-3 grapewines?
2) for how long will a cut branch continue the flow? days? weeks? Or will it simply sprout roots and start growing? if so for how long will the actual cut area still drip water?
Amazing video for survival tips.
you ask a lot of questions.. does it even matter..?
Who cares if it takes 1hr or 1 day? - you still got clean water
Who cares how long it flows? - if it stops.. just cut another one.
just be thankful for some good info that could possibly save your life!
@@dreadnaughttacticalit's good to ask questions, more the better!
@@dreadnaughttactical Congratulations for showing the stark difference between a scientific mind and an anti-intellectual. You should be thankful to everybody who asks questions, you'd very probably be dead without them. Knuckle dragger.
@@dreadnaughttacticalyou would want to ask questions so you know if and how you can replicate it of course
Several comments have mentioned freshening the cuts on both ends.
The author mentioned the health and stress level of the plant influence the speed of production.
Enough theory, go get experience and gather data.
I would be curious to see how many filters a cluster of vines like this could take. You should run another test if its in your time and wallet to see if the water would become more contaminated after a few filters. Would then be able know how many uses we get out of this. Great video!
This is really important survival information. Thanks!
This is one of the coolest videos i saw lately. Congratulations.
This is honestly mind blowing, it seems so useful but I’ve never hear of it or seen it anywhere before, definitely gonna give this a try!
Glad it was helpful!
Been around for couple hundred years at least
This is educational for me and I am now a new subscriber!
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing!
That's really neat. Had no idea this was possible, very impressive.
Congrats on 500k!
A very useful video, opens a completely new direction of possibilties. Also, I think it should not matter what plant it is. What about trying reed plants, or those with stalks like lotus, etc.
*- Mr. Clay Hayes; Laudatory tutorial.*
*- Clearly detailed, simple, principals involved of why it works well explained, useful.*
This is ingenious and makes total sense. I am impressed I've never seen this before. The filtration time is long but cost is almost zero. A great solution to many parts of the world. Just needs to spread the knowledge. Thank you!
Simple and ingenious. This method should help millions of people!
Excellent vid. Thanks. I'd like to know what plants filter the fastest and how much you can filter in a given time.
This is amazing! A great start to nature filter. We camp in the back woods a lot. We do a sand filter most times. So this is a great tool in the arsenal!