Cleaning your water with silver coins

[rasputin]

In case you don't know, silver is an anti-microbial agent. It kills bacteria.

Because of this, silver is used on silver clad vessels, like water pitchers.

That's what makes holy water "holy". It's been poured into a silver vessel.

To get the cleaning effect of water, I like to take 2, 1 ounce coins, and put them in my water container.

Try it, it's great!

Raz

[captainbluff]

Not sure if it works at all, but I've had a 1oz bar in my Britta water filter pitcher. I'm still alive and not blue :)

[offgrid]

got one round in the potable water tank
two in the rain water tank
put one in a gallon of water for a week or so, for seed starting
silver - it's not just for investing

[Bigheadt]

I keep a 1964 jfk half dollar in my two little girl's humidifier in their bedroom.

[SilverWeed]

I have a few various pieces/ingots of silver in my 40 gallon fish tank. I always knew about the cleansing effect of silver in the water but my fish have made no mention of that fact, although they seem to be extremely happy and content. It does look kind of cool too! Only bummer is if it gets too valuable, I may have to move some to the safe!! :)

[offgrid]

"bloom of true love associated with this time of year!"
thank-you for that beautiful reminder of Jesus and the love He has for us.
even the trolls get it.
Merry Christmas to the good folks at SilverSeek.

[cugir321]

Chlorinate (clorox unscented), 16 drops per gallon, let sit open for 24 hours then use a Pur class 2 or 3 filter and silver....the perfect combo. Be sure to filter the ditch water. The old timers in the 1800's had pretty good water to begin with.

[sunsetcliff]

does it remove flouride ie rat poisening?

[Richard]

I don't doubt that, but has anyone actually checked their water for microbes? Because I can't imagine the pond in my back yard would be disinfected from simply adding a few silver coins/bars. So what are the numbers here, anyone know? Ie, weight/mass of silver per cubic volume of water?

[cugir321]

I'll bet silver kills the microbes. I'd hit it with chlorine, let it sit open for 24 hours, filter it, then store with silver. It's not going to get rid of flouride. Nothing but an expensive filter does that. If you know of a way to remove flouride, cheap, please share it.

Pur has a nice water cooler for your refrig....the blue filters are a type 2 which removes a lot of bad stuff. Put a couple SAE's in the bottom of the cooler...should work nicely.

I've read you should always filter unsound water with at least a 2 micron filter to remove particles....viruses hid in the particles. Chlorine will probably kill them but it's easy to filter the water. Plus you're not drinking dirt.

I don't doubt that, but has anyone actually checked their water for microbes? Because I can't imagine the pond in my back yard would be disinfected from simply adding a few silver coins/bars. So what are the numbers here, anyone know? Ie, weight/mass of silver per cubic volume of water?

[Richard]

I'll bet silver kills the microbes. I'd hit it with chlorine, let it sit open for 24 hours, filter it, then store with silver. It's not going to get rid of flouride. Nothing but an expensive filter does that. If you know of a way to remove flouride, cheap, please share it.

Pur has a nice water cooler for your refrig....the blue filters are a type 2 which removes a lot of bad stuff. Put a couple SAE's in the bottom of the cooler...should work nicely.

I've read you should always filter unsound water with at least a 2 micron filter to remove particles....viruses hid in the particles. Chlorine will probably kill them but it's easy to filter the water. Plus you're not drinking dirt.

Don't know about flouride or if I would remove it. Anyway, there's a lot of ways to clean water, none of which I have done more than read about, and that was long ago. Chlorine, charcoal... some modern plants, I once read, were looking to use plastic membranes to filter/purify water. I don't know much about it, sorry.

But what I wanted to know was if JUST filter and silver alone would do it. Or silver and filter, depending how you look at it. I can't imagine that a single round in, say, a gallon would do the trick because it's just sitting there. It's to my understanding that microbes die on CONTACT with silver or copper (in a very short time). So there would have to be a fair amount of silver or some way to circulate the water around it. At least, that's what I'm thinking. Or maybe pour in silver shot, mix it around for... how long?... And that would kill the germs? I'm an ace at using the 'net for info, but some questions prove hard to answer nonetheless!

And also wondering if anyone has actually done tests to see how effective it is.

[My Pants Are Cold]

I'm no microbioligist but, while silver may kill large numbers of bacteria, I'm unsure of it's efficacy on parasites. Amoebic dysentery would not be much fun. Chlorine bleach or boiling is the easiest sure way of obtaining potable water.

[fansubs_ca]

I have a few various pieces/ingots of silver in my 40 gallon fish tank. I always knew about the cleansing effect of silver in the water but my fish have made no mention of that fact, although they seem to be extremely happy and content. It does look kind of cool too! Only bummer is if it gets too valuable, I may have to move some to the safe!! :)

I guess that means it's not dissolving into the water then. I seem to recall
reading that silver was toxic to fish, interfered with the functioning of
their gills. Of course if it's just a block of metal and not in solution it
wouldn't affect the fish nor would it affect bacteria except for the small
amount that actually contact the metal. Any bacteria suspended in the
water would be unaffected like the fish are. I'd run a few experiments
but I don't really feel like killing any fish, I guess cause fish don't usually
make me mad. ;)

[Richard]

I'm no microbioligist but, while silver may kill large numbers of bacteria, I'm unsure of it's efficacy on parasites. Amoebic dysentery would not be much fun. Chlorine bleach or boiling is the easiest sure way of obtaining potable water.

Well, your new avatar certainly explains a lot about your name! Seems to me that a bit more than the pants are cold, though...

Anyway, yeah, I pretty much figured it wasn't the TRULY nasty stuff that silver dealt with. I'll boil. Better than fucking around with bleech and killing myself from having TOO clean water!

Fansubs: "I'd run a few experiments but I don't really feel like killing any fish, I guess cause fish don't usually make me mad."

They absolutely drive me up the wall when I'm trying to sleep, so I have no problems with donating a few to science... lol