Revisiting water.

In my "What If" post I started mentioning water, filtration and beginning thoughts on some of it. With all of things you can do with something as simple, plentiful, and as powerful as water I probably could never cover it all but, take you on many steps and suggestions over time. As we all know, water is the base for all life on this planet,.. and can be not only a life-bringer, but a life-taker as well. The keys to safe water storage are simple things, light and temperature are two key things in it. If you notice, all water that seeps through the ground, pools up deep underground, and stays at colder underground temperatures comes out the purest..We can first confront the "why" on the journey to understanding "how". When water condenses and falls from it's evaporated state in the clouds, it has to go through the atmosphere and air we not only breathe, but contaminate with pollutants. In its fall to the earth it not only warms up, but acts as a natural filter for the air, picking up the pollutants from the air and carrying them with it to the ground. Once it hits the ground, it does a multitude of things. It waters the earth bringing live to vegetation and pools up on top of the ground to be absorbed by the soil. Once it makes it through the soils it starts it's natural filtration process, the more ground it goes through the more the water leaves behind. Whatever it is carrying get lefts behind, depending on density or how thick it is decides what gets left behind. The farther it goes, the more particles and filth get removed from it. depending on the terrain and region, it can get warmer, or colder. Bacteria can only grow in the range of around 40* F to 140* F. any lower or higher the temperature get to extreme for the majority. Some can live until freezing or boiling temps. The soil can, and does remove a lot of it. but once it gets through all of that soil, and down to the cooler temps deeper in the earth, the safer it gets. The combination of soil, temperature, and the lack of sunlight, and heat cleans it to a more pure state. That's what you want to try to copy and imitate at home. You want the least light possible, the coolest temperatures, and a good natural soil homemade filter. Most of you have heard of a Bio-sand water filter and when I manage to get enough viewers here and on my youtube  I will be able to buy and accumulate the pieces to build one on video for you, while showing the shopping list of parts, and a "How-To" for you to build one at home. You can build them in many sizes for many different applications. But once you build one, you need it in the dark at the coolest temps possible with the soil constantly underwater because after about two weeks time, a level of bacteria that you want to keep, will grow in the top  2 centimeters of it. This is a good bacteria that you want, because they will take, eat, and kill the bacteria you don't want. Once it grows in the top layer of soil, you can not disturb it, or it won't be there to help you have drinking safe water. The bacteria will remain in the top, or beginning of the soil filter. If done properly... once it gets through the filter, it will be as clean as it can get, and safe for you to drink. You can filter the local pond, river, or creek water and even rain water, and have water as clean as the bottled water at your local store and for a lot cheaper too! You never need to change or clean the filter either! Once you build it, and start using it, it will filter for lifetimes! You can look it up on youtube and build on now, and hope you understand it enough to get it right, and safe enough to drink, or you can wait until I show you ALL of the details in it, and know you will get enough info to build one!

...Until next time,.. be safe and Happy Prepping!