If you think about it, a human can live for a few minutes without air, a few days without water and a few weeks without food. The air situation is something that we can affect although over a longer period of time along such lines as reducing the amount of car trips to reduce carbon gases.
Water is something we can have a bit more direct influence on in our daily lives. It is a certainty that we must have several litres of good, clean and fresh water everyday to enjoy good heath. So often these days our water sources, even the municipal sources which we have grown to trust implicitly, are becoming compromised. Fluoride and other contaminants are found in most of these sources
Either for convenience, taste or contamination, most folks nowadays buy bottled water. Well the cost is about $10.00 a gallon now if you buy it in those little convenient sizes. Even at $1.00 a gallon it can add up quickly. The heck of that is much of this water is not really good and clean. Much of it comes directly from the municipal taps and the companies just bottle it and sell it to you with a very nice name attached. Granted not all bottled water is the same, always check the sources of that water carefully.
I have found that if I purify my own water at home, I can not only save money but rest assured that my family is actually drinking GREAT water! Unfortunately there are so many systems available these days and some are quite expensive, more than what I would normally buy. Not only this but many systems depend upon the municipal water supply to be able to give you purified water. This means that the municipality has to maintain good water pressure for these systems to work, or if they are boosted with a pump, then a steady source of electricity must be had.
So what happens if the pressure and electricity go out? I live in the mountains and this can happen all too frequently. I can’t imagine what it would be like in a true emergency, earthquake, tornado, hurricane or something like that where you might not have running water or electricity for some extended period of time. I have a Berkey water system in my house.
It doesn’t need any running water or electricity, you just have to have some source, a stream, lake or river nearby to fill the container and then the filters go to work. In fact, they aren’t really filters but purifiers. I have been really impressed they come in a variety of different sizes and are so easy to set up and use. My kids love the water and now will not drink from the tap (and our water is A rated water in the mountains here).
The upshot of all this is, if you want dependable source of great purified water check out the Berkeys!
