If you’ve spent any time around prepping circles, you already know the number one rule: water is life. You can push through days without food, but without safe drinking water you’re in serious trouble within hours. The challenge, of course, is figuring out how to sterilize water without chemicals when your usual conveniences are gone. After all, you may not always have iodine tablets, chlorine drops, or other store-bought treatments on hand.
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Big Berkey Water Filter – A Honest Review
So, here’s the thing, I finally pulled the trigger on my third water filter, this time a Big Berkey water filter, and honestly, I’ve been kicking myself for waiting so long. You know that feeling when you’ve been researching something forever, reading reviews, watching YouTube videos, and debating whether it’s worth the investment?
Best Portable Water Filters In 2025
It happens faster than you’d like to believe. A blackout, a chemical spill, a wildfire upstream or worse, a full-scale grid failure. And just like that, the stuff we take for granted every single day, water, clean and ready at the twist of a faucet, is gone.
Obtaining Water From Plants In The Wilderness
Because water is the most important requirement for sustaining life and normal bodily function, it is important that we identify the varying resources from which it can be obtained.
5 Major Benefits of Using a Water Filtration System in your Home
Water is an essential resource to run every household successfully. And although up-to-date water supply systems promise to guarantee that the water you drink, clean with, and cook is safe, adding a filtration system to your household is the perfect way to ensure that you fully protect your family.
Decontamination and Sterilization of Water
We usually take water for granted. While water is almost never scarce in most areas, uncontaminated water might become very scarce following a wide-spread disaster like a nuclear war or economic collapse during which all pollution control endeavors were abandoned.
Divining-Dowsing-Witching Water to the Degree of Survival
There is one thing that is notably important to your survival in any life situation: WATER. Though this may come across as an elementary fact, the processes of locating this lifeline can mean the difference between life and death.
Prepper’s Gear – LifeStraw Go Water Filter Bottle Review
Nowadays, you can find a variety of innovatively designed water bottles which include filters and some other features which makes them ideal for preppers but not only them. If you are looking for water bottles that have a filter incorporated, LifeStraw Go may be the right option for you. I have two LifeStraw Go bottles, and I promised my readers I would do a review, once I get a little time.
Prepper’s Gear – Pressured Jerry Can Water Filter Review
Not having enough water when the brown stuff hits the fan is one of my greatest fears. After all, water is quite essential for all the living creatures on this planet. As preppers, we aspire to have clean water for drinking and usage when the public utilities get shut down. I for one, I’m always looking for simple and effective ways to gather and purify water. I was hyped to receive my Pressured Jerry Can Water Filter and I couldn’t wait to test it. Here is what I discovered.
Drinking Water Survival Myths You Should Know
Water is one of the most crucial items you will need in any survival scenario. In fact, it’s the first thing that everyone runs out of. Drinking water in the wilderness becomes quite a challenge because people keep following blindly a few dangerous myths that have no scientific basis.
How To Kill Water Contaminants On The Field
Back in the day, people used to boil water to purify it, and this traditional method is used even today. However, times have changed, and there are now other options available for survivalists. Here are a few water treatment strategies to keep you alive on the trail.
Potable Water Is Essential For Survival After A Hurricane Hits
With the explosion of Hurricane Matthew in the warm tropical waters of the Caribbean, we witnessed the power of these storms when they finally make landfall. Having access to potable water became a problem for those hit by the hurricane.
Prepper’s Gear – Lifestraw Personal Water Filter Review
Over the past couple of years I’ve bought different types of survival gear, but this is actually the first time I’m doing a review for such an item. I decided to write this review after spending two weeks in the mountains and my Lifestraw would not produce anymore clean filtered water.