Who Has actually Used Pool Shocked Water To Drink?

[jmsneorrcom]

Never tried pool shock. In the way way back, in the long long ago, I knew a teenager that was just getting started into survivalism that used to fill up small soda bottles with bleach to carry in his pack with coffee filters as part of a homemade water filtration/purification plan. After bleach leaked out and made an almost surgical looking cut through his Alice pack, he gave up on the idea...

BAKING SODA in bulk would be a must for people that are really planning on using bleach and bleach derivatives for any serious amount of water purification.

Ive never heard baking soda for water purification, can you explain more on that

[jmsneorrcom]

whats the verdict on Pool shock. yes or no on using it?

[hagbard]

I tried it and died.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

whats the verdict on Pool shock. yes or no on using it?

I would have to say NO for now. Myth it's busted as they say on TV. I dunno maybe it works but till some adventuring soul tries it ..... I mean just look hagbard died LOL. Ya know the more I open up the more I see alot of Bravo Sierra out here that folks are trusting their lives to. It aint worth it folks, food and water is essential to life, why do silly stuff?

[Roman]

I have heard if you use swimming pool shocks regularly (usually once per week), it will keep your pool clean, healthy and free of chloramines. Chloramine is chlorine that is no longer effective. I always assumed a strong chlorine smell was good, but actually it means there is too little free available chlorine in your pool. One place to check is familyleisure.com which carries pool shocking products.

[Boyd]

U have no idea how much I despise messin with that thing!
and still no one has actually used it huh?

I have. Well went out for a week and a half. Family drank and bathed out of the buckets of stored water and when we ran out of that it was either hike down to the creek in 100 degree weather or use the pool water ;) After 30 minutes you could barely smell the chlorine. Didn't kill us, and our well was repaired last wednesday.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I have. Well went out for a week and a half. Family drank and bathed out of the buckets of stored water and when we ran out of that it was either hike down to the creek in 100 degree weather or use the pool water ;) After 30 minutes you could barely smell the chlorine. Didn't kill us, and our well was repaired last wednesday.

OUTSTANDING! and what was the recipe you used?

[jmc7104]

From what I read there is a short shelf life to regular store bought Bleach like a couple of years even unopened, so there is a need for something longer storing and that appears to be pool shock in powdered form. There is two steps to using for drinking water. One, add one heaping teaspoon of POOL SHOCK {granular calcium hypochlorite} to two gallons of water. This mixture is similar to regular bleach. Step two, use one part of this solution to 100 parts of untreated water. Allow the water to set for at least 30 minutes before drinking. If the clorine smell in the treated water is too strong then pour it from one container into another until smell is gone.
This stuff is not for the faint of heart to be fooling with. Very toxic as you can see. 1t. + 2gl=200 gallon of treated drinking water.
No I have not tried it because there is hardly anyway to do a very small amount short of wasting couple gallon of bleach solution, but I have it store on site and have no doubt that it will work.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

No I have not tried it because there is hardly anyway to do a very small amount short of wasting couple gallon of bleach solution, but I have it store on site and have no doubt that it will work.

See the Sig line, a waste of $2 and 2 gl of bleach for peace of mind and empowerment?

[jmc7104]

So be brave and test it.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

So be brave and test it.

Plannin on it this weekend, if ya dont hear back, i'll be over to haunt you! LOL

[jmc7104]

Just remember 2 step program, 1 teaspoon plus 2 gallon water equals one batch very potent clorine solution. Next 1 cup of this to 100 cups of water should make even Mississippi River water drinkable. This figures out to be 50 pints or slightly over 6gallons. Therefore my reason for urging caution.

[WiseOwl]

Yesterday I was doing some yardwork at one of my good friends' house, he has a pool and why not whilst I sweat in this heat, take a break and jump in the pool....when his wife got home and saw that I was in the pool, she said that they had just shocked it earlier that day and didn't think it was a good idea to swim....she says this as I am coughing and gurgling water out of the water hose....I am sorry but I will either filter my water through something thick and then boil it, or wait on some rain......pool shock and pool water in general is FN nasty....I dont recommend no one to drink it unless its life or death!

[MustangGal]

When I worked for a major poultry processing company, we used chlorine test strips to determine the amount of chlorine in the foot baths and hand dipping stations. This is just the first link I found that looked exactly like what we used: http://www.missionrs.com/25-123.html...FUjr7QodKUz5Fw

You would be suprised at how quickly chlorine dissipates.

[Boyd]

Just remember 2 step program, 1 teaspoon plus 2 gallon water equals one batch very potent clorine solution.

Same basic recipe I used to make bleach, although sitting the water out in the sunlight to let the chlorine gas off is recommended... Let me see if I can find my old clorox directions..

http://www.clorox.com/products/clorox-regular-bleach/faq/

.... you can disinfect your drinking water with Clorox