Conserving water when out remote

G'day, have a look at this Dirty water to fresh several ways to make one cheaply there.
Cheers Nigel

Try one of these

Hello Serendipity, I have been working on this for quite awhile as apart from everything else, water is the thing that determines the length of time you can stay in one place unless you have access to a good supply. However most times the quality can be questionable.

So I have been developing a way to cope with any quality of water no matter how dubious. Since when free camping "time" to process the water is not usually a problem and figuring that I needed to only refill my tanks ( 2x90 litres ), I have been developing a water cleaning process to bring water form a even a muddy condition to a piont where we can use it to shower and wash with it.

We always carry 5x15 litre containers of drinking and cooking water and brushing our teeth. ( much the same you do when in Bali.) The water I will be cleaning up is for washing and bathing only.

So the process takes the muddy water ( maybe even with a dead roo or two in it.) through a series of steps using chemical, filters and a water conditioner to a usable quality.....it can be done....it the finer points of the process that I am working through, but so all the equipment needed will set me back around $300.

Up until now it has been a process of obtaining water from various sources ie road houses etc and then stretching it out to make it last and as we have camped near some water that was questionable to say the least I have wondered if i could work with it and use it with confidence.....I now think I can.

Hi..

Obvioulsy no good for large volumes ...but suck on one of these ..not sure I'd try it with the dish water but if I was thirsty...

Outdoor Gear Water Purification

Recycling large volumes of water so you can wash your dishes is a bigger challenge...best solution being don’t use lots of water in the first instance.

Cheers
Greg

Hi all,

When remote I protect all the water from home like its gold and pick up whatever water I can on the way from bores, rockholes etc for washing clothes, dishes, showering etc.

Here's a gadget I made from PVC pipe and a clack valve from a retic supplier. Its easily lowered down a bore casing and hey presto - H20

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all the best

Thanks guys - some good replies.

One I have seen was where a pair of early gold prospectors made more money from selling water than finding gold because they had developed a portable still to boil salt water or other undrinkable water into fresh water. Many early gold prospectors died of thirst from rushing out to areas with no readily available water source.

I also saw on 'Northern Safari' movie (sold at the shop here on ExOz) about how when up in the gulf country they would take a home pressure cooker to turn sea water into drinking water.

These sort of things would only work if you where parked up for a while in one spot and had the time to boil the billy non stop.

Just considering things to make myself more independent when out bush.

Cheers

Serendipity

Remember seeing this on the new inventors show




solar water purifier

Found this whilst browsing, not sure of the cost

http://www.drinkwell.com.au/support/67

Hi Serendipity

We can managed, aside from fresh drinking water, on very few litres per day when we have to. This allows for a full body wash for both of us every night. If have a lot of hints on how to do this, as well as links to real emergency procedures to obtain survival quantities of drinking water in a critical situation. Distilling would be a slow process, but it is one of the survival methods. PM me if you would like to know about these ideas. If we can supplement our water supply by drawing water when convenient and using direct from the bucket rather than put it into our tanks, we can last many weeks on what we carry. We always have back up water in the tow vehicle. Water is critical to survival so it is best to be informed before going outback. You never know when you could be stranded by a breakdown.

Motherhen