If you’re a prepper,
or if you just want to have some water stored for the long-term in case of
earthquake, fire, terrorism, civil disorder or other potential dangers, you’ll
need to make sure the water is thoroughly disinfected during storage so
microbes don’t get a chance to grow in it.
Thankfully, colloidal
silver can effectively be used for disinfecting water during long-term
storage. And there’s another substance
you can add, as well, that’s said to boost the disinfectant power of the
colloidal silver by up to 1,000 times.
Here’s the details you
need to know if you want to keep your water free of microbes during long-term
storage…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…
There are as many opinions on how much colloidal silver to
use for keeping water disinfected during long-term storage as there are people
using it.
In other words, everyone has a different opinion, and most of
them are based on either hearsay or personal experience.
Because water quality differs from town-to-town,
region-to-region and state-to-state (and sometimes even from house-to-house),
what works best for one person might not work as well for another.
Nevertheless, the general rule-of-thumb is to use one ounce
of 10 ppm colloidal silver per gallon
of stored water. But as a "just in
case" measure, I personally use two
ounces of 10 ppm colloidal silver per each gallon of water being stored, for
maximum long-term disinfection.
This means a five gallon container of water being put into
long-term storage in my home would get 10 ounces of 10 ppm colloidal silver. Yes, that’s overkill. But again, I want to make sure my stored
water is safe to drink when the time comes to use it.
Using Colloidal
Silver and Hydrogen Peroxide
While I’m not a big fan of drinking colloidal silver that’s
been treated with hydrogen peroxide (unless it’s been given several days for
the hydrogen peroxide to dissipate) I do from time-to-time combine hydrogen
peroxide and colloidal silver when I put water away to be stored for the
long-term.
Many years ago there was a McGill University study on the
use of silver and hydrogen peroxide for the treatment of sewage water. The link I had to that study is now
dead. But according to the study, adding
hydrogen peroxide to the colloidal silver-treated water increases the
decontamination and disinfection of common microbes such as e. Coli by anywhere from 100 to 1,000
times!
Naturally, that might prove to be a valuable consideration
in a long-term water storage program.
According to the study’s authors, the optimal dose for silver and
hydrogen peroxide in drinking water is 30 ppb (parts per billion) silver and
30ppm (parts per million) hydrogen peroxide.
Extrapolated to a five gallon storage container, this would
suggest the use of 23 drops of standard 3% household hydrogen peroxide, along
with about two ounces of a standard 10 ppm colloidal silver solution.
Again, I’m one who believes in overkill in a situation like
this where long-term water storage is involved, so I’ve doubled those numbers in my own water storage program, when I
choose to add both colloidal silver and hydrogen peroxide together.
Before and After
My personal opinion is that it’s best to use either of these
methods (i.e., colloidal silver alone, or colloidal silver with hydrogen
peroxide) both BEFORE placing the water into long-term water storage, and then
again AFTERWARDS.
In other words, I’ll add my colloidal silver (or colloidal
silver and hydrogen peroxide) before putting the water into storage. And then, when the stored water is needed,
I’ll repeat the process before using
the water, just in case there was some kind of re-contamination of the water
during long-term storage.
Consider Filtration,
as Well
Finally, for maximum protection, filtration of the water
after long-term storage is very important, in order to get rid of any protozoal
cysts such as Giardia that may have been lurking in the stored water from the
start.
Many protozoal cysts (of which Giardia is the most common in
the U.S.) are not affected at all by the relatively small amounts of colloidal
silver, hydrogen peroxide, or even iodine or chlorine bleach frequently used as
germicidal and disinfectant agents in water storage.
But because of the relatively large size of these
microorganisms (compared to bacteria), filtration through any high-quality
gravity fed ceramic filter should do the trick.
In that regard, a company called DoultonUSA has some excellent,
gravity fed emergency water filtration units that can filter up to a gallon at
a time.
A company called British Berkefeld sells
a portable gravity filter, which can hold up to two gallons, and effectively
filter up to 10 gallons per day.
What’s particularly neat about the water filters from
both of the above companies is that they’re silver-impregnated,
so you get additional pathogen germicidal disinfection of the water during the filtration
process.
(My company does not sell either of those products, and I
don’t have any kind of relationship with the companies, though I do own one of
each of the above-mentioned gravity fed water filters.)
Learn
to Make Your Own
Colloidal
Silver for Pennies…
When using colloidal silver for
water storage, you’ll need to have a lot of it on hand. As I mentioned, I use 10 ounces of colloidal
silver per each five gallon container of water I put into storage.
Of
course, colloidal silver can be purchased at just about any local health food
store, or through a number of online sources including Amazon.com. However, because
it’s such a safe and effective all-natural germicide, it’s quite literally one
of the most expensive and heavily marked-up products in the natural health
field.
Health
food store owners, for example, often charge as much as $20-$30 for a tiny
four-ounce bottle of colloidal silver. Yet the cost to manufacture
four ounces of colloidal silver is about 12 cents. Yes, I said twelve
cents.
Of
course, people are willing to pay through the nose for colloidal silver, since
it’s safe and natural, and works so effectively against bacteria, fungi,
viruses, infections and related diseases.
But
thankfully, there’s no need to pay such exorbitant prices for colloidal silver,
when you can make your own, quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of
your own home, for about 36 cents a quart.
Yes, you can make it yourself for its actual cost – which is to say, a few pennies per quart -- and altogether skip the sky-high mark-ups charged by health food stores!
Yes, you can make it yourself for its actual cost – which is to say, a few pennies per quart -- and altogether skip the sky-high mark-ups charged by health food stores!
If
you’re interested in learning how to make your own safe, natural, high-quality
colloidal silver at home, for about 36 cents a quart, here are some
additional short articles you might want to take a look at:
Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another insightful article on
colloidal silver….
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
Helpful Links:
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