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Drinking water from your own garden: treat rainwater quickly

2022-11-19T09:00:49.730Z


Drinking water from your own garden: treat rainwater quickly Created: 11/19/2022, 09:00 By: Joana Lück In the event of a power failure, no water flows out of the tap. It is best to take precautions by having the necessary materials for a home-made water filter at home. If there is a power failure, this not only affects lights, traffic lights, supermarkets and petrol stations - water also does


Drinking water from your own garden: treat rainwater quickly

Created: 11/19/2022, 09:00

By: Joana Lück

In the event of a power failure, no water flows out of the tap.

It is best to take precautions by having the necessary materials for a home-made water filter at home.

If there is a power failure, this not only affects lights, traffic lights, supermarkets and petrol stations - water also does not flow out of the pipe without electricity.

If you don't want to keep a large supply of drinking water in the basement, you should treat rainwater from the garden.

Drinking water from your own garden - Can you treat rainwater?

Untreated rainwater should not be drunk.

© Astrid Gast/Imago

According to

Südwestrundfunk

, you can theoretically drink rainwater, but it is not doing you any good because the water travels a path from streams, rivers and lakes, evaporates, rises to the sky, condenses and falls back to earth as rain.

This is problematic insofar as the water comes into contact with various pollutants such as exhaust gases, fine dust and bacteria.

Finally, the rainwater is rounded off by dirty leaves and bird droppings that are found on rain gutters.

But you can get drinking water with simple tricks and everyday materials, as reported by

northern Bavaria

.

You need this for your own treatment of rainwater:

  • A pantyhose

  • An empty bottle

  • linen

  • charcoal

  • gravel

For basic cleaning, pour the rainwater from the rain barrel through a pair of thinly woven nylon tights.

Alternatively, you can also use a very fine kitchen sieve.

Then cut off the bottom part of an empty PET bottle and turn the bottle upside down.

Fill the bottle with a layer of finely woven linen cloth followed by clean gravel to act as a weight.

Then there is a layer of (clean) sand, then a layer of cotton wool.

Above this is the most important layer: charcoal, which has an antibacterial effect.

Place a layer of linen cloth, cotton wool, sand and gravel over the charcoal.

Now you can filter the rainwater.

You can find even more exciting garden topics in the regular newsletter of our partner 24garten.de.

This method is suitable as an emergency solution, but you should not drink the specially filtered rainwater for longer than a maximum of one or two days.

Source: merkur

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