As the curtain begins to close on our national government and chaos rules supreme we will quickly discover that the mighty dollar bill has lost its fascination and appeal while in its place are now bottles of fresh clean water or cans of urgently needed foods. Bartering will be the business technique by which all transactions will be accomplished.
Such common items that we are so used to taking for granted today will be some of our most prized possessions in our days of crisis. Things like can openers or water filters will hold the ranks as the valuable assets of which men will seek.
A young couple just starting out in their ventures of preparations asked me a very fundamental question recently. If they could get one item to store in the event of an infrastructure shut down what should it be? My immediate reaction was to tell them to obtain a water filter such as a one of the Berkley Filters. You can live much longer without food than you could from the lack of water.
You could store up on bottles water but this is a very expensive and space consuming proposition for most people. In addition, you would do well to consider the possibility that the current plastic containers used for storing drinking water often tend to slowly leach toxins back into your water over a period of time making your investment in this lifesaving liquid useless for its intended purpose.
To give you an overview of the space that stored water would take up consider for one moment that a single 1/2 liter bottles which is 16.9 ounce is sold 24 bottles to a case. That amounts to 405.6 oz. of this vital product. When you do the math at 128 ounces of water to a gallon you will obtain 3.17 gallons per case. When you figure 8 pounds of weight for each gallon that you are storing that amounts to 25.35 pounds of water not including the containers and packaging.
As you can clearly see creating a sufficient supply of water is certainly going to use up your valuable storage space and if you are like the rest of us you need all the area that you can muster. Now let's change the scenario just slightly and imagine that you have accumulated all these vast amounts of water and you find that it is necessary to bug out from your main home and head to a safe retreat miles away. In a case such as this none of your water reserves would be able to travel with you. It sure seems foolish to stock up on supplies for some thief in the night who may stumble upon your house after you have departed.
Although many new preppers have never heard of one of these types of water filters they are known globally. What makes these filters so unique is their ability to make totally safe drinking water from just about any type of water to include raw sewage if necessary. I feel that an investment in one of these filters would be a preppers best outlay in their survivability. They are readily available at any fine survival or self sufficiency store include several on the internet. An excellent source would be Lehman's as they carry a vast selection of products of interest to preppers.
As I concluded my conversation with the young couple it was determined that perhaps an investment in a Berkeley filter would be the more prudent course of action. You owe it to yourself and your family to investigate this type of filter today.
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