Water Storage or Berkeley Filter?

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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Planning for 2012 and City Water Supplies

Assuming you know anything with regards to "urban survival," you know it is not about gun toting, camouflage wearing end-of-the-world types. Rather, it is about learning and practicing a skill set of urban survival techniques that will help you get through the rough times ahead.

Municipal water is something that people take for granted, can't live without, and are accustomed to see flowing freely from the tap. However, history shows us that during periods of great economic upheaval, a reliable water source for city dwellers is not something you will be able to take for granted.

2 Ways Your Water Supply is Insecure

The two most significant threats to your endless supply of clean drinking water are an interruption of the electrical power grid and a supply disruption that affects the water purification chemicals. An electric power failure means that the pumps won't be able to fill the water towers to keep up water pressure. A supply disruption, due to civil unrest or extreme price instability, will mean that the quality of the municipal water flowing from your tap will be unreliable.

In Argentina after the financial collapse of 2001, the Buenos Aires municipal water supply started to become much less reliable. Plain tap water that once was pure and clean suddenly developed black spots, smells and off colors. The citizens of the former wealthiest country in South America were forced to learn quickly how to deal with guaranteeing their safe water, which almost all did by beginning to depend on bottled water.

The terrible thing in regards to the water supply is that we just believe that "they" (whoever they are) will always make sure that we are taken care of. What we do not understand is the fact that "they" are just a small number of individuals operating municipal water treatment facilities that are super-automated and totally dependent upon both the electrical power grid as well as their judgment.

We trust that "they" will do the right thing when systems break down and treatment chemicals are impossible to come by, but the perilous times of financial upheaval we are experiencing will stress "them" just as they will stress everyone else. It's best not to have your life rely completely upon these systems, but to also have a "Plan B."

Learning methods to purify water as a city dweller, store extra drinking water in case of an emergency, and learning how to get the remaining drinkable water from your system once your pressure shuts off are typically things that will probably be top priority of any urban survival manual.

Besides guaranteeing a "Plan B" for a drinking water supply, there are plenty of other urban survival techniques including home defense, emergency power, food storage, etc. that should be mastered in order to be ready for the next Great Depression. As the signs of the economic storm on the horizon become clearer and clearer, the time for practical preventative measures is growing short.

To learn about all of the urban survival techniques you will need to get through the tough times ahead, you should consult a practical urban survival manual.

You may be surprised at how little preparation it takes to give yourself a great deal of peace of mind as you are positioned to meet disaster head on.

By Mike Kuykendall, Urban Survival Techniques Expert at Survive2day.

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