Re: Water purification in extreme conditions

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Posted by Jim S on December 9, 2007 at 9:50:09 pm EST
In reply to Water purification in extreme conditions posted by Bill S on October 19, 2007 at 11:58:04 am EDT

Hi Bill
Your experience with removing glacial silt can most probabley be compared to the first level cleaning requirement. Coffee filters or cheese cloth first, then filter paper, then mechanical filtering, then chemical treatment. I've had a "cow pond" for a water source and theres really nasty stuff in there. I would imagine that hippo, elephant, wildabeast ponds might be worse. Maybe drive through some mud puddles in your jeep and stir up some good test material, but without the organic component you won't know for sure. Any cow pies in your area to add to the test water?
Jim S

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