Spend a little time researching how long you need to boil water to make it safe and you’re liable to find conflicting answers, even from “trusted” government and health organization sources.
“Boil water for ten minutes.”
“Five minutes of boiling.”
“Boil the water for 20 minutes.”
“A rolling boil for one minute.”
“You should boil water twice as long at [...]

Without clean drinking water, most of us would be dead inside a week. During extreme weather conditions, we would be lucky to make it three days. The problem with keeping an emergency supply of drinking water, especially if you live in a congested urban area, is finding space to store it. Between cooking, cleaning, and [...]

Cleaning up dirty water

Interruption of the water supply by natural disaster is a very real possibility at some point in everyone’s life. Going without water is a whole different ballgame than food. A healthy person can live as long as eight weeks without food but only a matter of days in the absence of water. [...]

Most of us have been through the standard fire and earthquake drills, but what are you going to do if disaster strikes your community and you are responsible for your family’s ultimate survival? If you question the best practices in an emergency situation, you must listen to this episode of The Holistic Survival Show as [...]

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Food storage is a wise investment for future individual and family stability. Many believe the idea of food storage is for extreme disasters, but there also are many everyday reasons to put extra food away… especially in uncertain times. Visit http://www.holisticsurvival.com/podcast-with-holistic-survival.php.  We are all subject to events beyond our control. Electrical blackouts, unexpected unemployment, [...]

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Interruption of the water supply by natural disaster is a very real possibility at some point in everyone’s life. Going without water is a whole different ballgame than food. A healthy person can live as long as eight weeks without food but only a matter of days in the absence of water. Thus, it is [...]