Tag: water security

DIY Solar Distiller

DIY Solar Distiller The featured article talks about building your own solar still. With a still you can turn undrinkable water into pure home distilled hydration. Purchasing one can be really pricey, even for a small distiller the asking prices are 200+. The uses can be almost unlimited from refilling lead-acid batteries in normal times to …

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Converting an Electric Water Heater to Solar

Converting an Electric Water Heater to Solar More and more new construction is moving to solar power. But that doesn’t mean those of us who have older homes don’t want in on the savings! The cost of heating water is one of the largest expenses in my household. Loads of laundry and tons of showers …

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Bad Strategies That Can Get You Killed

Bad Strategies That Can Get You Killed I hear so many of these strategies thrown around prepping sites and it makes me shake my head. My thought is to please leave a map of your cache’s and lots of usable supplies around where I can find them, please. Because if that is your plan A …

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DIY Insulated Tire Water Trough

DIY Insulated Tire Water Trough A really neat idea for keeping your smaller livestock and larger pets’ water from freezing this winter! Susan’s husband built the trough pictured above for their goat. But it would work for big dogs, smaller horses, etc… Best of all it is a recycling project and requires no power source so …

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DIY No-Freeze Watering Station

DIY No-Freeze Watering Station While there is still a bit of warmth in the air, now is a great time to winterize your chicken coop by installing a heat lamp and an anti-freeze watering station. Nothing is worse than having to go out into the cold to thaw out or replace your chickens’ water twice …

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Rancher VS The EPA Updated

Rancher VS The EPA Updated We saw the case in Oregon where the landowner’s permits to collect water were revoked and after he refused to dismantle his reservoirs was eventually jailed. Then a new battle began between a Wyoming rancher and the EPA over his permitted stock pond on his property. With water becoming more …

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Storage for Emergency Supplies

Storage for Emergency Supplies I will start off by saying I understand the need for additional storage for apartment dwellers especially those who are also preppers. But I don’t recommend a rental unit personally. If you happen to live within a block or so of the rental facility perhaps if you’re in a really small …

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Turn Salt Water to Drinking Water

Turn Salt Water to Drinking Water If you live near a body of salt water this could be an important process for you to learn! Drinkable water is one of the first necessities that we humans must find in a crisis scenario. The human body must have water within three days to survive, sooner to …

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DIY Water Purification System

DIY Water Purification System Water, water and more water! I know to those of you, like myself, who have been prepping for some time, are probably tired of hearing about the need to store, acquire, or purify water! But even the aggregated pages like us can’t stress enough the need for this as part of …

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H2 Dynamo Turns Air Into Fresh Water!

H2 Dynamo Turns Air Into Fresh Water! Fresh water has become an issue in many countries around the world including the United States. One of the countries that suffers the most from lack of fresh drinking water is Israel due to the dry desert conditions. They have developed a device they call the H2O Dynamo that …

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