Clean Water and Other Survival Tips

Water knowledge is one of the most important parts of survival. Humans will die from lack of water long before we'll die from lack of food. An untrained person trying to survive in a desert often has only a day or two before total incapacitation sets in. Poor water also carries diseases which, if they don't kill you, can severely slow you down and make you a burden on others. Here are some ways to make sure your 2012 survival water supply is safe.



How to make your water safe

• Keep a bottle of chlorine bleach on hand. Chlorine is still the best water insurance.
• If you are using water you aren't sure is clean, clean it before you drink it
• If it has mud, sediment or bugs in it, first strain it through several thicknesses of cloth and let anything remaining settle.
• If you boil water for 10 minutes after it has been strained, it will be drinkable.
• Add two drops of Chlorox per pint of water after it has been strained and let sit twenty minutes. This will also make dirty water drinkable.
• There are filters, and pumps with filters, that are now on the market that will clean water so it is safe to drink (ask me about the FILTRATOR! Follow the directions. One of these in the survival kit is always valuable. 
• Just because a stream looks clean, don't trust it. Always clean your water if you don't know for sure it is clean.

• Other knowledge that may help you survive a 2012 crisis:
• Try to keep yourself clean. If you have to be cold and hungry, you don't want to be sick too.
• Always keep a good supply of any drugs you may need, extra eye glasses, matches and such handy and well protected.
• Have a gun, know how to use it, and stash a lot of ammo. A good shot with a 22 can harvest almost any of the edible animals in North America, and a 22 will work for protection. Also, 22 ammo is good trading material.
• Have a large supply of tobacco, and stop smoking. Someone who smokes will trade almost anything for tobacco.

Water - You Just Gotta Have It!

Let's answer a truly critical question...

How much attention have you given to the need for an adequate supply of potable water? Where do you think it is going to come from when the water lines are ruptured?

We take water so much for granted, most of us think having enough food and ammo on hand is all we need in case of an emergency. But without water, death is not far away. Three days away in fact.

In an emergency, city supplies will be gone. Even if you have a well, you could find it suddenly quits running, not just because the power has gone out, but because earthquakes rupture underground streams and reservoirs. It happened last week (November 2012) to several hot springs in the Canadian national park north of Vancouver Island after a 7.2 earthquake out at sea.

Maybe your steel six-inch well pipe will survive the quake, but we know for a fact that an earthquake can suddenly turn well water into a rusty sludge.

At the heart of the Great Shakeout project is the idea that individuals need to be prepared, because government agencies will be overwhelmed.

California learned from its Shakeout that "In the case of a large earthquake, it is possible that help will not come for two weeks."

What does that mean? It means the unprepared will become a burden on those who have prepared. It's happening right now in New Jersey and other places devastated by Sandy. We can certainly have compassion for those who find themselves in such dire circumstances. And yet, we can't help but wonder why the vast majority of people seem to think that "the authorities" will rescue them.

Frankly, it's rather ironic that those of us who have spent years encouraging people to be prepared have been labeled as scaremongers and doomsayers - and here we have a real-world disaster which is exactly what we were trying to alert people to be prepared for!

Further, doomsayer or not, we can expect more such superstorms, and bigger and nastier earthquakes in the months and years ahead.

Which brings us back to water.

If there is one thing that should be taking priority in anyone's prep planning, water is it.

You need water to cook. To drink. To stay alive. (And let's not forget your pets, gardens and livestock).
You need stored water.
You need a minimum of one gallon per person per day.
You need to start storing water now.

You need the FILTRATOR! Send an eMail to miketummillo@me.com for details.

It's not about some Apocalyptic event!

It's not even about an ancient Mayan prophecy being fulfilled in December of 2012.

It's not necessarily about another Frankenstorm like Sandy or Katrina either.

But it MIGHT be about a flash flood contaminating your community's water supply as fuel, chemicals, human and animal waste mingle to create a toxic stew. 

And it MIGHT be a severe winter storm that causes pipes and water mains to burst. 

On the other hand, it COULD be an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) that knocks out the grid and renders your town's water supply un-drinkable. 

And it COULD be an un-thinkable catastrophic event such as a rogue nation's suitcase nuke or an earthquake (have you noticed they're on the increase lately?).

In every instance, without clean water, humans will start dying in about 3-4 days.

That's where the FILTRATOR! Emergency Water Filtration System comes in, eliminating deadly "chunky-style" water. I make these units with my own two hands. I test 'em and bless 'em, too. One FILTRATOR! unit can filter up to 2600 gallons of nasty water in the Upper Chamber which contains a Doulton Ceramic Sterasyl filter. Doulton's been making water drinkable since 1827. In the summer of 1849, over 33,000 people died of cholera in Great Britain within a three-month period, 13,000 in London alone. Doulton filters played an integral part in ending this pandemic and have been used to clean water and stop the spread of disease all over the world ever since. 

You need one of these. Each unit is only $100.00 each and it could save your life. While it's being stored, you can keep other Bug-Out items inside the unit... a tarp, matches, toilet paper, food, rope... whatever. Grab your FILTRATOR! and GO!

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Top 10 list of dumb food storage mistakes

1. Ignoring the importance of nutrition in the foods stored
2. Using sacks or containers that are not air-tight
3. Failing to keep food containers in a cool, dry place
4. Failing to keep food containers out of the light
5. Storing too many items that need refrigeration
6. Failing to include enough of a variety of different foods
7. Failing to maintain a good balance in the foods stored
8. Failing to include at least a small percentage of “comfort” foods
9. Failing to check expiration dates and rotate stored foods
10. Storing all of the food in only one location.

Redundancy is a GREAT idea, not only storing food - such as GOFoods - but also canned goods and MRE's. 

Also, be prepared to hunt for food. Know your berries and plants! 

Get a gun or bow and arrow and learn to fish, even without a rod 'n reel. Learn to make traps to catch rabbits and squirrels. Also, rat traps are a great idea. Many people of the world eat rats. They're plentiful and relatively easy to catch. nail to a tree and catch squirrels!

If you're interested in GOFoods, you can get FREE PRODUCT SAMPLES HERE!

Blessings,

Michael Tummillo

The sun can not only power and heat your home, but it can 

make your water safe to drink. As you may know, the human 

body can only go about 3 days without clean water. The 

process is really simple, too! 

Here’s the easy way to purify water:

1. Use clean, clear plastic PET bottles or Coke bottles no bigger than 2 liter size. PET bottles are usually marked with the recycling symbol and a numeral ‘1’. Remove all wrapping and packaging. Spray paint black, if possible.
2. Fill them water and close the cap tightly.
3. Lay them on their side for maximum sun exposure. 
4. Expose the bottles for at least 6 sunny hours, preferably more, or 2 full cloudy days.
5. Do not overuse bottles. You will be ingesting the plastic material over time, so keep your bottles fresh.
6. Do not treat too much water at once. The depth of the water is key as the UV rays from the sun kill bacteria. Do not use buckets and keep the water depth perpendicular to the sun at a maximum of 4 inches.

If you’re like me you’re probably storing bottled water anyway. 

Now, you can reuse the bottles when that water runs out, and 

purify untreated water as you need it without using fuel or 

electricity.

This method has been proven to kill bacteria effectively. The 

longer you ‘cook’ the water in sunlight, the less bacteria there 

will be. The best practice is to refill bottles as soon as they’re 

empty and let them bake in the sun for as long as possible. 

This method is great for hot showers when the water isn't 

working for an extended period. Simply 'cook' several bottles 

and take them to the shower stall with you. Rinse, lather, 

repeat.

Kindly re-fill the bottles for the next shower-taker!