Hey guys! Was wondering if anyone has any knowledge about water filters/pitchers and what's good quality. On a side note, will boiling water remove flouride?
i might have drunk from moorland streams here 20 years ago but not now.I keep a Sawyer mini filter in my grab and go bag. After I bought it I tried it out in some cloudy water. It seemed to work fine. The majority of mountain creeks, springs and lakes around here are clean during the summer, fall and winter. And I don't hesitate to drink directly from them. With spring runoff they can get a little muddy at times.
I’m sure those filters are good, but wonder about the longevity of any cartridge filter. I have eight ceramic ones and four charcoal ones. The charcoal ones will only do so much water before becoming ineffective, but the ceramic can be scrubbed and used over and over. The longevity was the reason I chose it. The bad side to the ceramic is it’s brittle and can break if dropped, (which is why I got extras). With the cartridge filters I would consider getting some spares since you don’t know how many people, and animals, you may be providing drinking water for. Also another thing that will greatly increase their life is rig up a pre filter to catch as much particulate as you can before filtering the water. Even a few cotton tee shirts will stop a lot of small particles from clogging you filter prematurely.I don't have one, but from what I've read, the Berkey with the PF2 filter is the one to get.
You never know what was buried 80 or 100 years ago. Not to mention a dead animal, animal droppings, etc. good advice is always filter water. Even in a place as pristine as arctic is, if you’re several miles from home and get severe direaha and cramps getting back could prove to be tough. In any shtf situation it could too easily be a death sentence.Except for a few springs up north, I never drink untreated water.
I've even heard (from my grandfather) that people have become horribly ill from drinking fresh spring water at the source because there was a cemetary nearby.
Human beings can and have been really vile. The cemetery thing is a real concern. A lot of the embalming fluids used over the last century were really poisonous. Just recently have they started using concrete vaults to slow down the chemicals leaching into the groundwater, but even those won’t be watertight forever, why they don’t outlaw the nasty chemicals is beyond me.I agree with you Brent.
Buried things can, evidentally, cause groundwater problems for decades.
It's considered a war crime and a crime against humanity (according to the Geneva Convention) to poison wells in warfare.
This happened in the past when soldiers would dump dead bodies down wells so that the well would be unfit to provide water to guerrillas.
The only problem is that a dead body can render a well and nearby wells unsafe for up to 20 years, so this unnecessarily impacts poverty-stricken civilians who may need to rely on the well for survival.
I agree.Human beings can and have been really vile. The cemetery thing is a real concern. A lot of the embalming fluids used over the last century were really poisonous. Just recently have they started using concrete vaults to slow down the chemicals leaching into the groundwater, but even those won’t be watertight forever, why they don’t outlaw the nasty chemicals is beyond me.
I don't understand either.what I don't understand is;you put the corps in a box,bury it,then why the hell do you have to embalm it?? it's maggot food after you close the pit with dirt.
Agreed. I saw a documentary of a cemetery in France that uses an auger bit to dig a hole. They put you in a cardboard tube, no embalming fluids allowed, and bury the tube. In twenty five years they remove the small marker and bury someone else there as most who knew you have moved on as well. Seems ok to me, but still not as efficient as cremation.I agree.
If it was up to me, cremation would be universal...with a few exception like donating the body to science, or cryonics where the person is frozen.
For me, I would rather have my survivors donate money to cancer research in my name rather than an ostentatious funeral with an expensive headstone.
I’m not sure anyone would really be able to use much of whatever’s left from me, but there welcome to it. Even if some med students were able to learn something by cutting me in little pieces at least something positive happens. Burying a body only makes sense to me as it reduces the risk of disease transmission. Cremation is still way better at it.have a donor card in my wallet,so if somebody needs something from me that's still useful,just take it.
I agree with your donation ideas in principle, but there are other barriers.Agreed. I saw a documentary of a cemetery in France that uses an auger bit to dig a hole. They put you in a cardboard tube, no embalming fluids allowed, and bury the tube. In twenty five years they remove the small marker and bury someone else there as most who knew you have moved on as well. Seems ok to me, but still not as efficient as cremation.
I wish the govt would step up and make organ donation mandatory. Once your dead you don’t need them anymore and there are so many people they could help. It seems pretty selfish to me to not be a donor.
Our govt has done a lot of questionable and just flat out wrong things over the years in the guise of ‘national interests’. Unfortunately I am sure they will continue in one form or another. I’m not much on conspiracy theories, but the govt is run by people, and people are capable of really bad things.I agree with your donation ideas in principle, but there are other barriers.
African Americans have, traditionally, been against organ donation because of erronious beliefs that doctors won't work as hard to preserve life in an emergency if donation is in the cards...because black lives don't matter as much as white lives, and black people are a conveinent source of transplant material.
Believe it or not, these beliefs actually have a basis in fact.
If you've heard about the Birmingham church bombing in the early sixties that killed 4 adolescent girls and sparked off the civil rights movement, well, there's an interesting coda to the story.
The graveyard where the girls were buried was moved in the 1990s to make room for a shopping center, and the casket of one of the girls was empty...and her body was stolen.
Medical schools routinely purchased bodies of african americans without the consent or knowledge of the surviving family. It was common.
The military also did this so they could test weapons like landmines, mortars, and new types of grenades.
If you don't believe me, look it up.
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