Water collection options

[Pete Grey]

(14 June 2018, 19:30)LAC Wrote: 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.