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I have lifted this from another thread on this newsgroup and ask a question
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""actually in area where they are dependent on pumping stations to get them
water, that might not be too silly. What use dry foods when there is no
water at the tap and no one has come round with standpipes?
You'd probably need to have both dried and tinned foods, and a few spare
water containers

Jim Webster ""
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Most of the readers of this newsgroup will have water butts, we have 8 and
they are full.

Question. Considering they have creepy crawlies in them at certain times of
the year, (I haven't been out to see if there are any now) how can the water
be made fit for drinking in an emergency?

Mike



There are 4 methods you could use.
Boil it
Brew beer or similar with it, that was the method widely used in Europe
in the distant past and the reason why we generally have a higher
tolerance to alcohol than eastern races who were smart enough to boil
theirs!
Filter it, which is basically why spring water is usually ok as it is
filtered by the ground it passes through
Treat it chemically which makes it safe but taste disgusting! although
ship board water was usually treated with silver and tasted fine.
But if your water buts had a closed lid and it was an emergency I would
drink it straight
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea