Preparedness 101 - Water storage

This is the first is a series of lectures
that are held in Anaheim, CA. Water storage and preservation is perhaps the most important of all preparedness steps. To see the entire video or to learn more go to WWW.FrostCPR.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• preparedness
• survival
• water
• storage
• food
• Frostcpr
• preperation
• LDS
• Cypress

[brianmo180]

In a survival situation you do NOT want to poop or pee in fresh drinking water just so you can flush your toilet. Even with rainwater or washwater, if the shit really hits the fan to where the water shuts off, chances are the sewage treatment plant won't be operating, so you'll either have sewage backing up or flowing untreated into waterways. The solution to this? Compost it. Thats right. Type "humanure" into the search box and watch the videos by jcjenkins.

[kmikesell]

@brianmo180 Most of the water treatment plants in this area are geared to be able to run for several days if not weeks, on back up power. (I have a good friend who works for the county plant) The biggest problem would be sewer main breaks, and you would be right. That's why you should watch my video on sanitation! BTW in an urban environment, composting of human waste is illegal!

[brianmo180]

@kmikesell I’ve been doing this for 2 years now and I’ve never gotten sick because of it. Flies and odor are not a problem with the pile. Sawdust is an excellent material for odor control, and cover materials like straw and dead leaves I use to cover the pile with keep odors from escaping and flies from getting in. My neighbors don’t even know that I’m doing it, and I live in an average suburban neighborhood. It’s really a pretty benign process.

[kmikesell]

@brianmo180 After the Northridge earthquake I was tasked with "Red Tagging" houses that had no sanitation facilities. Trust me if anyone finds out what you are doing, you will be in a world of trouble. That being said, if I had a retreat place I would do it!

[cyanleopard]

Why did you not want to know if they had a well? Just to keep the class moving or is there laws in CA against having a well?

[kmikesell]

@cyanleopard In most metropolitan area's you can't get the water rights. A well is VERY rare.

[WDeet]

Do you know anywhere I can get dehydrated water, so that it is lighter and takes up less room? In dehydrated form I could carry a 500 gallon pack in my front pocket, and when I need some, "just add water"! What about freeze dried water, any websites that sell that!

[kmikesell]

@pinatamarket So you don't think that people showered AT ALL during the days that followed Katrina? Or how about after the Earthquakes in Chili or Haiti? I happen to know that in each of these situations that people showered (although minimally) after the event. Even a PTA bath or Navy shower is required after a few days. If you want to go weeks with out a shower.....Make sure you stand downwind from me, Thanks

[brianmo180]

@kmikesell In a compost pile that receives human waste (very high nitrogen materials) mixed with sawdust (a very high carbon material), the pile is practically guaranteed to get hot enough to kill pathogens. I stuck a compost thermometer into my humanure compost pile today and it read 135 degrees, and that was ten days after I last added anything to it. A day or two after adding fresh material, the temperature usually reads 140-150 degrees. Hot enough to kill all human pathogens in minutes.

[brianmo180]

@kmikesell I watched the four sanitation videos of yours and they were good, though I still think composting is by and far the best way to go. At one point in the fourth video you mentioned composting of organic residues such as food scraps, and even mentioned how these compost piles can get hot and kill pathogens.

[brianmo180]

@kmikesell Here’s the link to those videos:

/user/jcjenkins01#grid/user/FD­5D0CE103FD3A56

[brianmo180]

@kmikesell I’m not aware of any place that explicitly outlaws the composting of human waste, though I wouldn’t be surprised if some places had restrictions on it. In my experience any county official that has actually studied how to compost human waste soon realizes it to be a very viable solution. The people that would restrict it tend to be the less informed. Joe Jenkins “The Humanure Handbook” does a great job explaining the process, as does his video series here on Youtube.

[cyanleopard]

@kmikesell I would have never have thought about that, and it your reply compelled me to look up my local laws sense I live in the suburbs of Atlanta. Sure enough you can not drill a well with in the city limits of Atlanta, tho I think there is some special consideration if you already have a well and and you have to have a deeper one drilled. Thanks for the information your videos are always vary helpful.