How to Successfully Turn Salt Water Into Drinking Water

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Evaporation Distillation Method 3

Fill your camp pot about half way with salt water.
Form a cone with your aluminum foil so that the tubing is wrapped around the top of the cone and the bottom is used to seal the pot.
Place the pot over heat and run the tubing to a catch basin or bottle.
As the water comes to a simmer, it will start to evaporate and the steam will come up through the tube, dripping fresh water out the other end.

As previously stated, water desalination can be difficult if you lack the necessary materials to do it. This is why it's so important to prepare for each potential survival situation as it comes up. You wouldn't pack snowshoes in a desert survival situation, so why wouldn't you bring supplies for desalination if you know the only water you'll likely have access to will be salty?

For more helpful tips on distilling undrinkable water into pure drinking water, check out Prepper Ways.


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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