As a medical laboratory technologist specializing in microbiology, I really appreciate that you went to these lengths to show people what could possibly be in unknown water sources. Filtration and chemical treatment are vital. Especially in a situation where medical intervention isn't available. The illness these lifeforms can cause is not something you want to be dealing with, particularly in a shtf situation.
@@TinotendaHunda-ib2nu these can be found anywhere but the risk of infection is very low. Still of you get infected the risk of death is like 99.99% so I would be careful
@@Undomaranel I like reusable, but it would need to be specific kinds of fabric. I think my grams used cheesecloth for making wine/beer? Besides, sock-flavored stew?? 🤢😁 And folded coffee filters take up basically no space at all.
@@Alvan81 Dude, come on. A cheesecloth is designed to filter curds and whey, which is far larger than pond scum and microbiology. And is it really so difficult to keep a spare crew sock for it's thick, woven filtration possibilities? Even if nothing else you could gently dip it in the water, watching the water travel up the sock via capillary action, then wring out scrum free water. And yes, in a survival situation, I'd rather my boiled water have a little toe jam (if I was stupid enough to not properly prepare) than chunks of moss and algae. Boiled giardia is better without pond salad.
@@Undomaranel I wasn't pushing cheesecloth. I was speculating on what kind of cloth would be good/similar to coffee filters. So cut me some slack, I haven't seen a piece of cheesecloth in 30 years. My socks and tshirts are fairly coarse woven; because I live in warm climate. I don't think they would work the way you think. Good luck.
I once got lost on a hike .... it was only planed to be an hour or 2 and I only had a small 12oz bottle of water with me... it was a hot day and that was gone quick. Fast forward and its 9pm and getting dark... id since lost my dog on top of getting lost myself and had been blindly tearing through the dense forest for hours and hours... I was sooooo unbelievably thirsty... I was hiking around a lake... I figured worst case scenario I'd be out there over night and get rescued in the morning, and knowing most water born pathogens take 24-48hrs to make you sick, I figured I'd be home by then and decoded to risk drinking from the lake. The water tasted fresh and clean and I drank my fill... a lot... probably a half gallon.... miraculously I never got sick at all, I got rescued that night around 1am and yes I did get my dog back... eventually... he was gone for 10 days and showed up 16 miles away.... ON A ROAD WHERE WE USED TO LIVE!! I still have him to this day, he will be 14 in November. He is still in good health, walks 2-3 miles a day with me and I'm sure still has a few good years left in him.
@@a.j.williams195 They put iodine in salt, but it's minuscule amounts. You need to get iodine in a small bottle with a dropper. It's liquid and when you get it on the skin leaves a yellowish-brown color. Same stuff the doctor swabs the skin around a cut if you need stitches.
You don't really need to dry them out, though you might want to pass some alcohol through them when you get home to kill any of the critters the filter caught if you're worried they might start growing inside it. Best bet is to back flush with distilled water to push out all the debris.
LIFESTRAW good for something like 200k gallons or 5 yrs of safe water even from brackish or sewage water . Id absolutely trust my life ,thats why i still have two
I'm glad you did this, definitely great to know...my dad said in case of prepping, even boiling or distilling doesn't get rid of chemicals but boiling is as good as we can get.
Not really, chemical treatment is just as good. Water filtration plants don't boil your water bro, the tap water you drink isn't boiled and it's perfectly fine
Distillation actually does remove a lot of chemicals, organic compounds, VOCs, pesticides, heavy metals, in addition to biological contaminants. But inorganic compounds and large molecular weight non-VOCs will remain, if present.
Boil it - Cant go wrong. I've swam in all sorts of gungy water holes, farm run-offs, dirty farm water reserves full of stagnant stuff probably with dead animals 😂 never got sick but I guess if you drink it then it becomes a problem
Or use P&G chemical treatment + Filter, which is just as good as boiling. Water filtration plants don't boil your water bro, the tap water you drink isn't boiled and it's perfectly fine
Might I suggest a coyote well? Dig a hole a few feet from the water source. If it's mud/ dirt/ clay your water will have self filtered as it's part of the water table, not the scummy pond. Then lifestraw that.
As a acience nerd, that filtering machine is the type of gadget I get a rush from spending my hard earned money on. Lol. Have you ever watched the before and after videos of the filtered water under a microscope?
I would love to see a test for a moving water source vs a stagnant, also purified and boiled, for both the moving and stagnant water, think that would be really cool
Lol pond water was always cool under a microscope. Mine used to connect to the PC and amplified sound too. Watching baby dragonflies (water nymphs) live and fight and erghh roar(maybe whale songs?).
Think they are pretty much the same. My friend in Africa who ran an orphanage used the life straw system only a large one, that used the same filter process. It did an amazing job filtering the horrible water they used.
Could you make this exact same video but instead of using that fancy filter, you filter ut with a DIY charcoal filter and boil it, and then check under the microscope.
I'd say boil then filter. It would be easier to gather water to boil first before filtering. Since boiling makes it cleaner, it'll make your filter last longer before needing to clean the filter again.
im not necessarily the wisest on this particular subject but i dont see the issue of first using the filter and then boiling, the filter will leave only debris from what it looks like, once thats gone you can then cook the dangers away that may remain
@@joshua2400 There is no issue, the best answer is that it works either way. Although, I believe that most filters take time to filter out the water. So boiling it first then filtering would be quicker. Then again, either way works.
So should you boil the water before or after filtration? I'm guessing after filtration because the filter itself could harbour microorganisms, especially if it's already been used to filter unboiled water
bubble is likely a black hole , the kind that only exists when in an environment where such micro life forms can be found and filtered into . hope that made sense
These types of filters are similar to what many water treatment plants use today, and will filter out any water-borne pathogen and filter out most, if not all harmful compounds.
how hard is it to push the dirty water through that filter? i saw another guy test that one and it worked well, but he was using very very very dirty water and took some force to get through the straw
