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Water Distillation for Microbes, Heavy Metals, Salt and Chemicals

While the three methods described above will remove only microbes from water, the following purification method will remove microbes, heavy metals, salts and most chemicals.

Distillation involves boiling water and then collecting the vapor that condenses. The condensed vapor will not include salt and other impurities. To distill, fill a pot halfway with water. Tie a cup to the handle on the pot’s lid, turning the lid upside down, so that the cup will hang right-side-up when the lid is upside-down. Put the lid on the pot (make sure the cup is not dangling into the water), and boil the water for 20 minutes. The water that drips from the lid into the cup is distilled.

Fallout Water Purification

Water itself cannot become radioactive, but it can be contaminated by radioactive fallout material. For safe drinking water that may have been contaminated with fallout, follow the directions below:

Making a fallout water filter starts with two 5-gallon food storage buckets. You will need to punch holes in the bottom of one bucket to allow water to flow through into the next to capture the filtered water. Next, you will need to fill the bucket with 2 inches of soil (the more clay in the soil, the better). It’s important to dig down past soil that could have come in contact with fallout, so dig down at least 4 inches, and preferably 6 inches, beneath the soil surface. Place a layer of clean towel with good absorbency properties that has been cut a little larger than the circumference of the bucket and place it on top of the soil. You can now use your handmade fallout water purifier by allowing water to flow through the purifier to the other bucket.