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$185 to provide the basic equipment you need for MOST disasters: $600 for a complete set up
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Purifying Water: $40OK ... you need more SAFE water to drink? PITA I know, but you can get more SAFE water to drink (at least filtering out the bacteria) for a reasonable price. For years I recommend the Katadyn Base Camp system, what I personally used in the wilderness for many years - NO MORE!! AVOID IT LIKE POISON!! You used to be able to use a top quality Ceramic Filter with it - but now they only have crappy paper filters that clog up almost instantly and wear out with just a few hundred liter instead of 8,000-12,000 gallons with the ability to be cleaned if they clogged up. I would now recommend the Sawyer Products BAG gravity flow system with a CERAMIC filter that is good for 100,000 gallons. Fill the bag with water (only 1 gallon of water at a time - sorry) and let gravity do it's trick flowing the water down into your collection bag or pot (always toss away the first gallon or so you filter). The Sawyer CERAMIC filter (which can be cleaned) has an extra small 1 micron pass through so it is going to filter out almost anything bad in the water except viruses and chemicals. Like any ceramic filter water purification system get the water as clean as you can before putting it through the filter so the filter doesn't clog up. Cost ... a major league expense at $40!! example: [ link to www.amazon.com (secure)] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79096761 correction ... .1 micron size filtering Yes there are other bag water purification systems out there but ALWAYS check out what type of filter they use and how many gallons or liters they will filter before they are no longer usable. MOST of the supposedly "highly rated" systems out there are only good for a few hundred liters which works out to 200 to 300 gallons. The Sawyer system filter, as long as you can keep it clean, (easier than with any paper cartridge system) will go for many TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GALLONS! As noted in the past I used the old Katadyn system with a ceramic filter but they no longer sell that. This is the best replacement to that system, though the other components of the system, such as the bag, are not nearly as robust as the Katadyn system was. One can also build a container to container system on your own using Dalton ceramic filters and filter holders (Dalton filters are the best out there imo) but that is going to be MUCH more expensive AND it is a non-portable system once set up (I do have two of those I built up for myself). The best current commercially available LONG DURATION system out there is this Sawyer one. And yes, you can get replacement filters for it. Sorry I didn't get this mentioned in my post #1
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