As a child I used to read about solar stills made by digging a hole in the desert and covering it with clear plastic, I was an adult by the time I actually visited a desert environment, but I was very disappointed with the results. However, by placing a plastic bag over the leaves […]
Tag: water
Water Line Installation
Today we are going to test and discuss my water line installation. I rented a trencher to put in a new water line and while I was at work my buddy installed a water hydrant like the one pictured here. He also put in an underground connection for the tiny house. Additionally Smitty put […]
How to Build a Water Bottle Skylight
I spend a lot of time looking at appropriate technologies coming from missionaries and other groups that work in third world countries. I figure – if it works in areas lacking infrastructure then it will work if we ever lose our infrastructure. This idea came from a couple of YouTube videos I saw of […]
Sterilizing Water in a Pressure Cooker
This method Sterilizing Water in a Pressure Cooker is much like pressure canning. Except instead of sterilizing food, we will be sterilizing drinking water in glass canning jars. Unlike filtering or distillation, this will not do anything for contaminate – just organisms. To truly sterilize something, it must be free of all microbes AND spores. […]
Survival Still Review
The survival still I am reviewing today is a lightweight, portable water purification still that can purify almost any water source from any heat source. That makes it flexible. Which is a vital, but often overlooked feature of survival products. As soon as I saw this still I knew I had to have one, […]