Water Storage Tanks

[JohnS]

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Originally posted by pam jones

That is some pretty sobbering reading material. No wonder locals buy water by the case when it goes on sale. If I'm reading this right, basically there is nothing an individual can buy or make to insure that the drinking water from their catchment is 100% safe. If I am wrong about this and there is indeed a system out there please bring it to the forum because I have been falsly led to believe that with filters and an ultraviolet light, our water would be as safe as that from the county supply. Yikes!pj

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You can build a 5-gallon-bucket activated charcoal filter (GAC, Granular Activated Carbon) for well under $100 in materials that will give a 5-person household nicely filtered drinking water for six months. Then you replace the GAC and have another six months, and so on. In particular GAC is best tech for filtering hydrocarbons and synthetic organic chemicals.

DIY details are in Permaculture Activist magazine #69, Autumn 2008. Back issues available, see: http://permacultureactivist.net/backissues/BackIssu.htm

Low tech, inexpensive, needs no electricity, will work on low pressure gravity fed water.

See also info on slow-sand and bio-sand filters here:

http://oasisdesign.net/

http://www.aqsolutions.org/

cheers,
John S.