Water collection options

[Smiffy]

Have you learned nothing Grasshopper?

You buy the water feature kit and give it to her as a present doing all the hard work of installation for atta'boy points!

I like your thinking

[Mortblanc]

Have you learned nothing Grasshopper?

You buy the water feature kit and give it to her as a present doing all the hard work of installation for atta'boy points!

I like your thinking

Boys, my late wife had some of the best firearms money could buy! Each one a gift from her loving husband and borrowed on a regular basis.

[Pete Grey]

Our water backup after the jerrycans are our three waterbutts.

As our pond needed topping up i used the opportunity to empty the waterbutts and was surprised by the amount of muck in them.

So i jet washed as much of the bungalow roof as i could reach, then cleaned out the gutters, down spouts and rain diverters then washed out the waterbutts.

Then i tipped a couple of litres of THIN bleach in each and sloshed it around, will leave it in for a couple of days before draining out. I needed to replace the bleach anyway as i’ve had it in stock over six months.

After flushing out the waterbutts i will half fill them with fresh water, rain is forecast, when full this gives us 600 litres of backup, that still leaves us the pond as a last resort.

We keep six litre bottles of thin bleach for bulk water sterilisation, as well as tablets.

[LAC]

Pete, do you use the bleach just for cleaning/steralising the jerry cans or do you add it to the water as a means of steralising the water itself? If so, in what quantity/ratio?

[Pete Grey]

Pete, do you use the bleach just for cleaning/steralising the jerry cans or do you add it to the water as a means of steralising the water itself? If so, in what quantity/ratio?

Hi LAC, to sterilise water use eight drops of bleach to a gallon of water (must be thin bleach,the cheap stuff, it’s sodium hypochlorite with nothing added), i got a couple of eye droppers from a local pharmacy.

Run the water into a jerrycan ( filter if necessary) add the bleach and shake gently then leave for half an hour. If there is a slight smell of chlorine all should be fine and safe, if no smell add a little more and leave another half hour, this is in case the bleach has lost some of its strength.

Treated water soon looses its smell when you come to use it and as the last bleach i bought was about 40 pence a litre it’s a good backup if you’ve no oasis tablets at hand.

[CharlesHarris]

[Pete Grey]

Excellent post CH, everyone please note, do not take chances with water, if TSHTF contaminated water will be the biggest killer.

[CharlesHarris]

[LAC]

Great info PG and CH, cheers.

[MaryN]

Personally I still put all drinking water through a ceramic filter - have you seen what comes out of taps?