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Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 17-09-2019, 16:48
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

Doesn’t appear to have “taken”

If you drink water with enough chlorine to kill off your gut bio, well tomorrow’s dump isn’t going to be the concern.

Meanwhile treated drinking water is probably...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 17-09-2019, 10:17
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

what a freakin argument reach :banghead:
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 16-09-2019, 15:42
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

gee, a few Billion people seem to be able to survive it
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 16-09-2019, 09:27
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

impossible to say (but if nothing gets into the tank the answer is pretty much yes), but easy to verify

if there is still a free chlorine level in the tank it is still safe to drink from...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 10-09-2019, 09:42
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

BTW since I've a topic posting mood

For those in the cold laying up your tanks/systems with anti freeze in the winter:

There is always going to be "some" left in the tanks after you...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 10-09-2019, 09:38
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

I have a "few" years experience in water treatment. But I don't want to imply I've an "expert". Other than the waste of time and water there isn't anything wrong with using super high chlorine/bleach...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 10-09-2019, 07:36
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

2 tablespoons (1 oz) should give a free chlorine of 4-6 ppm in 100 gals of water

With that said, there isn't anyway really to calculate the dose because bleach gets weaker with age and you don't...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 10-09-2019, 06:09
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

Of course it worked. It's like using a nuclear bomb when all you needed was a BB gun.
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 09-09-2019, 19:04
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

I see people don’t let basic chemistry get in the way of various myths
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 08-09-2019, 13:31
Replies: 206
Views: 42,975
Posted By sailorboy1
Re: Drinking Water from watertanks

I just use a carbon filter at the sink and just ........................... drink the water. If I feel the water is "old" I add a little bleach and let the carbon filter take it out.
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