Fall and winter preps

[Aloha_Shooter]

Surprised no one has mentioned water filters. I've got 4 Sawyer water filters (https://sawyer.com/products/all-in-one-water-filter/) and a couple Lifestraw Home water pictures (https://www.lifestraw.com/collection...lifestraw-home). Will have non-perishable foodstuffs but water is everything.

[HBARleatherneck]

Surprised no one has mentioned water filters. I've got 4 Sawyer water filters (https://sawyer.com/products/all-in-one-water-filter/) and a couple Lifestraw Home water pictures (https://www.lifestraw.com/collection...lifestraw-home). Will have non-perishable foodstuffs but water is everything.

Good catch, I forget about a lot of things, because I have them and assume everyone else does too. I have a dozen lifestraws. (maybe a few more) A Crown Berkey, Royal Berkey and a bunch of spare filters. Clean water is kind of important. We also have a hand pump for our well. No matter what if there is no power we can pump water out of the well.

[TheGrey]

Surprised no one has mentioned water filters. I've got 4 Sawyer water filters (https://sawyer.com/products/all-in-one-water-filter/) and a couple Lifestraw Home water pictures (https://www.lifestraw.com/collection...lifestraw-home). Will have non-perishable foodstuffs but water is everything.

It hadn't even crossed my mind!

I was at Murdoch's today and saw they had 5 Gallon water jugs (block style) on sale for $7.99 each.

[Aloha_Shooter]

It hadn't even crossed my mind!

I was at Murdoch's today and saw they had 5 Gallon water jugs (block style) on sale for $7.99 each.

You can go through 5 gals fast plus things grow or it gets stale after time. 0.1 micron filters like those used in the Sawyer Mini or Lifestraw Home pitchers will clean just about anything bigger than a virus from the source you're drawing from. Get a few of the jugs so you can set up a long gravity feed and not have to wait for clean water when you want it but don't plan on storing all your potable water desires for a long time in them (IMO).

[TheGrey]

You can go through 5 gals fast plus things grow or it gets stale after time. 011 micron filters like those used in the Sawyer Mini or Lifestraw Home pitchers will clean just about anything bigger than a virus from the source you're drawing from. Get a few of the jugs so you can set up a long gravity feed and not have to wait for clean water when you want it but don't plan on storing all your potable water desires for a long time in them (IMO).

Thanks for that suggestion! I'll look up lifestraws.

[Great-Kazoo]

Thanks for that suggestion! I'll look up lifestraws.

we got a few from the Mormon cannery. Which is still, CLOSED!

[Aloha_Shooter]

Thanks for that suggestion! I'll look up lifestraws.

Personally, I think the Sawyer products are more economical and are thought out for things like using a 5 gal bucket gravity feed.

The Lifestraw Family is rated for nearly 4800 gals and runs just under $50: https://www.lifestraw.com/collection...y-water-filter

The Sawyer All-in-One is rated for 100,000 gals and runs $60 retail (although I got 2 at REI seasonal sales for $25 each): https://sawyer.com/products/all-in-one-water-filter/

The Sawyer also has inline kits so you can insert it along the drinking tube for hydration bladders and replacement filters are very reasonable. So I only need to worry about a single type of cartridge but can use it multiple ways.

One of the things I like about the Lifestraw Home pitchers is that they use a microfiber filter like the Sawyer or their normal Lifestraw products but they add a carbon filter before it goes through the microfiber filter. Nicely thought out design IMO but more for drinking water at the table than the kind of mass sanitized water you want for cooking and cleaning. I use one Lifestraw Home to feed the humidity tank in my CPAP.

[Gman]

I use one Lifestraw Home to feed the humidity tank in my CPAP.

Does the filter remove the minerals as well?

[Great-Kazoo]

Does the filter remove the minerals as well?

It should. You could (if there is room) set up a purification station. Run water through charcoal, then fine sand, then another tank or bucket of charcoal. Throw in a UV light at the end.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Does the filter remove the minerals as well?

A lot of them, yes. I saw calcium deposits but only after I'd left the secondary charcoal filter in the pitcher much longer than I should have. The agent that delivered the CPAP had said the instructions say to use distilled water but she used a Brita. The Lifestraw Home is much better than a Brita because all the Brita removes are lead, copper, large mineral deposits. The microfiber filter on the Lifestraw Home (like on the Sawyers) removes particles down to 0.1 micron while (as I understand it) the charcoal filter removes dissolved solids.