Here's just a couple tricks I've picked up in my travels.

The ground is a good source of water. To harvest it all you do is this.
Dig a hole around 2 or 3 feet wide and anywhere from 1 to 3 feet deep.
Place a container in the center of the hole.
Cover the hole with a tarp, rainfly, trash bag, or anything similar.
Place rocks or something else heavy around the out side edge and one smaller rock in the middle.
Now what happens is that the sun will cause any moisture in the ground to evaporate. The water vapor will rise and collect on the cover, condense and roll to the lowest part of the cover(the small rock in the middle). There it will drip into the container and sit until you're ready to harvest it.

Banana trees are another good place to find and produce water. Here's what you do.
Cut tree down leaving a stump about one foot high, and scoop out the center of the stump so that it's hollow.
The roots will naturally start to fill the stump with water and do so for the next few days until the tree dies.

You can also use sand to filter any water you find. If you have a container or can build one. Fill it with sand and pour water through it. The smaller or finer the sand the better the filtration. The best idea would be to layer the different grits of sand. The finest being at the bottom and the largest at the top. If available, clay and charcoal would be the best to use as the final filtration layer. You can make a very good charcoal for filtering by compressing the coal like remains of fired or burnt hardwoods.

I have plans for a below ground water filtration system using the same concept listed above. I like the below ground system I came up with because after construction it doesn't waste space and needs only a few items items to construct, mostly just hard work.

2  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?    

Show Last Reply