Emergency Water

Many people don't know that in an emergency you have a supply of water that is drinkable and safe to use.


It's called your hot water tank.

Even fewer still know exactly how to drain a hot water system for extraction.

This video show's how you go about it...

NOTE: A hot water tank that supplies water to a radiator system and/or is in an apartment complex is a different system and is not safe to drink from. Yet even this has some uses as it can be used to flush toilets, coolant for vehicles etc.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Emergency
• Water
• hot
• radiator
• flush
• toilet
• coolant
• supply
• complex

[sirmasterpimp]

I did this back in 2003, when the big blackout hit (in the us....I was in Michigan). The whole grid went down, including the city water works (oddly enough the land line phones still worked).

we used the water to wash hands, we had bottle water to drink.

[WatchRyder]

@sirmasterpimp

Glad you knew the ways man.

Land lines are funny, they normally have their own 'circuit' and power independent of the powerlines.

Some folk have actually run a very weak current of them.

[ak74srthebest0909]

Crazy! I like your dog.

[WatchRyder]

@ak74srthebest0909

Thanks, he's a wild one but good hearted.

[BlackthornBushcraft]

@EDWARDBASTARDHITLER EEKKK!! Ty

[Manialt]

Nice outro mate :) The fading out is abit off though.

[EDWARDBASTARDHITLER]

i was working in a factor once where they drained the cooling systems and flushed them out every few months to prevent legionairs disease bacteria,so i would say that the general hot water tap boiler is safe but i wouldn't sup from the central heating system,,,legionairs disease was actually discovered by french legionairs drinking from or coming into contact with water that had been in a system too long,,,other than that i do not really know..

[EDWARDBASTARDHITLER]

@WatchRyder ;sorry i was refering to the guy who said about drinkin radiator water,,,you can probably drink alright from the hot water boiler because its just the hot tank and gets flushed regularly,...

do not though drink from your radiator system,,,that tank only refils itself to compensate for evapouration and it will or should have inhibiter to stop steel radiators corroding,,,or stand alone systems have a deionised water in them which i wouldn't trust drinking after 20 years in it

[WatchRyder]

@EDWARDBASTARDHITLER

Go on...

Does this get rid of the black colouring?

[EDWARDBASTARDHITLER]

@BlackthornBushcraft ;dodgy because of potential legionaires disease,and radiator systems have corrosion inhibitor in them or maybe oil radiators...

deionised water can turn black over time;if your ever in deep shit keep some peppermint cordial around and dilute it with your own urine..

[EDWARDBASTARDHITLER]

my dad did our boiler recently;it was totally cramed with scale;we got a decorators tub full of lime flakes out...southern water i am sure has given me three kidney stones before..

[WatchRyder]

@BlackthornBushcraft

I've been discussing this with some friends.

For flushing toilets, filling a cars coolant up it's fine.

For washing your hands, drinking and cleaning dishes etc I'm wary.

However if you filtered and boiled it for 10 minutes you should be ok. But that's on theory. The reality might be a bit different...

Maybe a video response from you Blackthorn? ;)