Surprising Survival Uses for Moss I have always liked the look of moss growing between pavers in the garden area. Other than that to be honest I have never given much thought to moss at all! Until I discovered the various uses for it in a survival scenario. The picture above is sphagnum moss. An extremely usefully …
DIY Catchment Pond Creating your own catchment pond on your own property is one way of making sure you have a reserve water source. It could be part of your aquaponics system or even just a nice, stocked fishing pond. Usage would only be limited by the size, the weather in your locale and the laws in your area. In …
5 Urgent Water Storage Tips Water is the life force of every living thing on this planet including human beings. Without safe drinkable water all the other preps we have done are worthless. Plants won’t grow, animals will die and human life will be snuffed out within a few days. So we search for safe …
Solar-Powered Lens Water Purification The project set up by Buffalo sophomore Deshawn Henry is one he hopes will contribute to insuring the world will always have access to clean safe drinkable water. His prototype is determining the appropriate thickness and angles etc.. to make this a doable project for the rest of us. Once those factors …
Water Storage Basics & FAQ Water storage is one of the most important preps we can have. In the past year we have had location after location with contaminated water. People standing in lines waiting for government trucks to hand out bottled water, grocery shelves emptied of not just water but most other beverages as …
Ditch The Rule – What & Why What you are looking at in the picture above could be considered an EPA protected waterway. No, I am not kidding this farmer’s crop ditches do fall under the proposed changes to the EPA ‘s 1972 Clean Water Act. So do your coy ponds, the water reservoirs created on your private property, …
Reusing Plastic Water Bottles There has been a lot of controversy regarding reusing plastic water bottles. It only seems logical that since they only had clear water in them that simply refilling them with more clean water should be safe enough a time or two. There are those that feel that reusing a plastic water …
Man Does Time for Water Collecting Water collecting laws in Oregon land a local man in jail for collecting too much rain water and water run off. He has been using the rain and run off to fill his own reservoirs on his privately owned property. Oregon officials insist that his massive water collecting efforts deny the near by city of …
Distilling Water at Home As most of us know there was a water crisis in Ohio in 2014. After a few weeks Toledo residents were being told their water was safe once again. But news sources told us it was not over. The algae producing toxins in the water didn’t reach their peak for another month! Boiling the water didn’t help in …
10 Tips to Stop Wasting Water Water is the most precious resource to life on earth. Everything that lives or grows requires some sort of water. It is one of the first utilities that are knocked out during a disaster and the one that we most prep for knowing that without it we die. We …
