Re: [californiadisasters] Water treatment for emergencies

At 05:45 AM 06/21/2014, you wrote:


>Hi Rick
>
>I'm talking about storing water in 55 and 35 gallon food grade
>barrels for years. Bottled water from the store when fresh is good
>for a few years but I'm talking about Disaster Supplies. In the
>upcoming predicted Ca Quake some areas could lose safe municipal
>water for weeks if not months. Also bleach is good for surface
>sterilization and cleaning.
>
>You can buy the 1/2 and 1 oz bottles to add to water barrels but why
>spend $12 when a few cents of bleach will do the same thing?


Bleach is 5% chlorine and 95% water (some
brands - especially at the 99 cent stores) are
an even lower percentage).


I was told that you can make your own surface
sterilizer with pool chlorine (100%) at the same
percentage.






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Posted by: Mike Morris WA6ILQ <wa6ilq@gmail.com>
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