How to Successfully Turn Salt Water Into Drinking Water

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Clean drinking water is easily the most important resource you can have in any survival scenario. Depending on your situation, this prospect can be easier said than done.

If you are in an area with only salt water, such as the ocean or one of many inland seas and salt lakes, you will have to go about preparing your water for drinking differently than you would normally with filtration.

Saltwater requires desalination, a process that can be tough if you lack the proper tools, which is why it's important always to prepare for emergency scenarios that align with the area in which you will be located.

There are many ways you can distil your salt water into pure drinking water, and on the next page, you can learn 3 of the most popular.

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10 Comments

  1. Kyle Root said:

    If you have time and are stationary enough. Large metal make a moonshine still. You’ll need a large metal container, k copper (bendable) make or have a 2nd large container and a container to put distilled water in. Set the large metal container on a non burn able stand (brick rock or metal) connect the copper to the top, bend the copper into a downward spiral, place inside the other container making sure the copper extends past the bottom edge of the second container, coat the bottom whole with anything to keep the water in the container. Fill the first container with water you intend to purify, fill the second with other water, light fire under the first, put bottle/canteen/jug under the exposed copper below and wait.

  2. Michael William Whitworth said:

    Use a kettle or pressure cooker and weld a copper pipe to the spout of the kettle or make a hole in the pressure cooker and weld the copper pipe to the hole, then at the far end make a coil around a can or bottle with the copper and have a piece sticking out about a foot long, then place the copper in a metal bucket and drill a hole for the foot long piece of pipe and weld the copper to the hole so that it wont leak. Then put another hole with a tap on it in the same bucket so you can fill with cold water but let it out and fill with more cold water so the (bucket condenser) works better. There you have your own water distiller. It will work for alcohol as well but you need a temperature sensor in it and a doubler would be useful for the steam (a metal cylinder inbetween the condenser and the kettle or pressure cooker). I made one with a pressure cooker, thermometer, copper pipe and a bucket. It is in my shed but needs fixing as some of the weld has come off the pipes but it worked well.

  3. Karl Erikson said:

    You gotta boil off the water so the salt stays in the po

    Wait- that’s not right.

  4. Dustin Dailey said:

    My guess is they’re doing that whole steam collection method, or where it leads to a tube steam goes up and drops into another’s container. Like a solar still but with fire. I Won’t know because they’re clickbait bullshit

  5. Scott Malone said:

    Not hard at all,we have blackish water where I live so u have to whi

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