My water filtering collection for very good and bad times

Access to water is always a concern when leaving the network on my truck – not when I am at home in Amsterdam, a city surrounded by things. This certainty changed recently when the government ministers began You urge citizens quietly To store emergency supplies due to an increased risk of armed conflict and other regional opponents.

One recommendation, From manyIt is that you have three liters (approximately one gallon) per person per day, or 15 liters per day for my family of five people. This means 105 liters for only one week or 450 liters per month! I have no space for that. Who does?

Therefore, I began to think: Why not increase fresh water stores in emergency situations with a nomination and purification group that can adapt to all water sources around me? Since I am from Vanlifer and the chronic adventure, let’s make it bearing so that I can take it anywhere.

I reached this as Prepper for the first time: linking fast water filters like $ 42 is sold by Camelbak With a 11 -liter portable portable Go the water jug (69.99 dollars) and recharged Go to moisturizing water tap ($ 99.99). Dirty water enters and the clean water comes out with the same double on the tap. She even has a light!

If Europe is already returning to a state of turmoil, I will breathe clean water-extended pinky-from this luxurious preparation in the twenty-first century, at least until electricity is stopped. Until then, emergency situations, including the protection of variable viruses of genes in the zombie tube. You cannot be very careful.

Allow me to be clear: this is not a review, although everything is tested in the group. It is the best guess for novice stays to support what supports my Vanlife adventures while keeping my family’s moisture when the Day of Resurrection comes. Welcome suggestions.

Nomination for purification

My primary filter is the Lifestraw cartridge because it contains an integrated transformer for rapid connection that easily settles in the GO Jug CPC. It features two phases of filtration. The physically hollow fiber filter removes bacteria and protozoa that cause diseases, as well as dirt and fine plastic, and is 4000 liters (1000 gallons). Meanwhile, activated carbon candidate removes things like tastes and individual odors. It is only 100 liters (25 gallons), and a package of alternatives can be obtained for $ 13 for pop.

Using a Go to pumping water from the jug through a Lifestraw filter in the line reached 0.5 liters in 40 seconds, or 36 seconds without a filter between them. I also have a small MSR filter that needs a portion of 1/4 inch tubes and a fast connection converter to wrap the jug. He filtered 0.5 liters in 38 seconds.

Nomination is good for removing biological pathogens that are usually found in North America and Europe, but I also want to protect against smaller bacteria and viruses that are transported by water in places without sewage systems that have been well -maintained. In Vanlife, you never know when the dirty fiber falls on the source.

I was surprised and spent 200 dollars on MSR Guardian Water Purifier With only 0.02 microns, compared to about 0.1 to 0.2 microns for filters sold by Lifestraw, Sawyer, MSR and others. For perspective, the anthrax bacteria measures about 8 microns. Giardia, ColaAnd salmonella is in the range of 0.5 to 2 microns; Viruses are spread by human stool usually between 0.01 to 0.3 microns, According to MSR. So the Guardian purification device is my solution when I need to go nuclear to a suspicious water source.

$ 200 is costly, but the Guardian cartridge is classified for more than 3000 liters (about 800 gallons) of water before the need to replace. Using a MSR purification device creates a lot of lower 3000 liters of bottled water, which also costs me about $ 1250 in my local grocery store – this is before prices rise during the crisis.

The Guardian MSR purification device requires a quick converter to connect to getting around the GO jug. Unfortunately, the re -rechargeable faucet does not produce enough suction to draw water through the trustee cartridge. But this is good. You can slowly purify the water if you remove the GO faucet, stir the jug upside down, and put it on the truck to serve as a gravitational nourishing system.

Better, I have strengthened my setting MSR’s Autoflow XL Gravity Filter 10L. The idea is to suspend the bag high in a tree and wait for all the dirty water to flow down to the jug across the cartridge to purify and / or filter – there is no required pump. In this way, the GO jug can be 100 percent dedicated to cleaning drinking water.

Gravity package of $ 129.95 includes everything you need to filter a lot of water for several people: 10 liter water bag with tense, integrated, long -run pipes, and a hat compatible with Nallegen that connects to tubes and nails on the going jug. It also comes with a small MSR candidate with the age of 1500 liters, but the gravitational system works with many included cartridges, including my Lifestraw and the Guardian MSR.

MSR says that the guardian purification has the maximum 0.5 -liter flow rate per minute, which is flour in my test at sea level, when the gravitational bag is hung in about six feet (183 cm) or higher. It took the MSR candidate that came with the bag only 35 seconds to filter 0.5 liters of dirty water, while the Lifestraw filter took one minute, just like the purification device. I am quite sure that I can accelerate it with a 90 -degree fast connection converter that allows Lifestraw a vertical comment.

I like these filter / purification cartridges because they are very flexible. For example, if you have to travel to light, Lifestraw and MSR filters can be used directly to the water directly from a stream, mirror, barrel, pool … whatever – just writing down the back water tube in the source and starting absorption.

Also click on the Lifestraw Kambak Chis The backpack, which contains a 1.5 -liter water bladder for my personal use. It is the moisturizing bag that I have taken over the past few years when riding mountain bicycles, running or walking long distances. Lifestraw adds the largest part and the additional weight to a lightweight package and requires drinking about 20 percent for drinking. Water bladder can also be suspended from a tree to serve as a temporary gravitational filter.

I have tested Dietic Go Jug and Faucet while traveling around Europe on my truck last summer, but I never found it useful. It is only after adding a guaranteed candidate – something that he does not sell, but I should finally see its common value.

One of the problems I faced with Domeitic’s Go Jug was the plastic taste that it produced when the water was stored for a longer period than one day. This is although the bowl is made of BPA -free plastic. Perhaps I could have solved this if I clean it properly using an unreasonable whitening solution, but I had nothing. It contains two holes: one is compatible with the nalgen, while the other largest opening makes it easy to fill and get inward to clean it. However, his experience now with an attached candidate may fix the problem.

I also hacked the Goo faucet to expand the hose with some 1/4 -inch food tubes in my local hardware store. In this way, I can safely package below the jug at the back of the truck (about two meters) while the tap is installed on its magnetic base next to the pelvis.

This gives me a choice between two ongoing water taps: one of them for diligent drinking water, and the other for the unarmed water that I find along the drinking road (according to the local banners or population) and stored in a 20 -liter Jerry, sink. The latter boil – killing all pathogens – for tea and coffee and used to wash the dog or moisturize it. This setting should help me extend the life of filters and benefit.

Go Dometic is a luxury, but I like it somewhat. Double clicking on the tap begins, water flows for one minute before it is turned off automatically to keep this precious resource (one click it closes). Faucent Go has an internal battery capable of 150 liters (about 40 gallons) per shipment.

I am somewhat confident, my water filter and purification set will serve me well, but I am afraid that I have missed something. For example, this group cannot deal with water contaminated with chemicals or toxins, and requires regular care to avoid mutual pollution and stop mold and bacteria from growing within the system when they are not in use. But what is the well -known unknown that I currently do not know?

I will not be able to repair it by connecting the Amazon if the shit fell and the supply chains are disrupted – so any of the large tips … Braaaaaains… to freedom The collective reader welcome.

Photography by Thomas Recker / Drilling