About six months ago I started collecting spring water from a local spring with friends, because it seemed like fun and I wanted to see what it was all about.
Six months on, having lived on this water daily I would say it’s one of the best things I’ve done for my health … and it’s free!
Check out the videos below I made on a recent trip.
Related: www.FindaSpring.com
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My hubby and I recently started collecting spring water. We are living between a home with a basement (occasionally) and an apartment with a garage (most of the time). The apartment is in Wisconsin and it has been a rather hot summer and I worry that the garage is too warm. Currently we are reusing clear, plastic gallon water jugs. (I intend on slowly aquiring amber glass jugs for storage). We fill a couple of dozen at one time, as the spring is several hours away. Can I add a little colloidal silver to the water to help keep it bacteria free? Thanks for your advice on this
Russell: I’ve found a wonderful spring in Blackville, South Carolina, and feel wonderful drinking this precious water. Since South Carolina temperatures are mostly quite warm (or hot!), I think storing my water in the refrigerator might be wise. Any reason not to?
Hi Eva, the fridge is a great place to keep the water in hot temperatures.
Russell: I’ve found a wonderful spring in Blackville, South Carolina, and feel wonderful drinking this precious water. Since South Carolina temperatures are mostly quite warm (or hot!), I think storing my water in the refrigerator might be wise. Any reason not to?
Hi Eva, the fridge is a great place to keep the water in hot temperatures.
Hi Russell, thanks to U we are all going spring hunting & we cant wit 4 it! Just please share were did U get those nice big water containers?
regards from Helen Curtis at helen-573@hotmail.com
Hi Helen, I actually bought them from a company that supplies water fountains to offices.
Usually the offices have to pay a £5 deposit for each one that they have delivered full of water, so I gave them £5 for the empty bottle.
Hi Russell, thanks to U we are all going spring hunting & we cant wit 4 it! Just please share were did U get those nice big water containers?
regards from Helen Curtis
Hi Helen, I actually bought them from a company that supplies water fountains to offices.
Usually the offices have to pay a £5 deposit for each one that they have delivered full of water, so I gave them £5 for the empty bottle.
Russell,
What do you mean by go off. I want to gather some to keep for a while during winter as it is difficult to get to the stream after it snows. How best to keep the water. I have a basement.
Fresh water is like a fresh piece of fruit and it will go bad, just like fresh produce. A cool, dark place like a basement is a great place to keep your water fresh.
Russell,
What do you mean by go off. I want to gather some to keep for a while during winter as it is difficult to get to the stream after it snows. How best to keep the water. I have a basement.
Fresh water is like a fresh piece of fruit and it will go bad, just like fresh produce. A cool, dark place like a basement is a great place to keep your water fresh.
Thank you sooooo much for the excellent vids. They’re very inspiring and educational. What a great idea to collect in plastic bottles and then transfer into glass when you get home. I’ve already had one of my beautiful 5 gallon bottles break while trying to get it down my steep stairs on a dolley. What a dramatic flood that was down my stairs.:-)
Hi Russell, How long do you store your amber glass bottles of spring water? Wondering how long the water will keep.
From Russell: I usually only keep it for a week but if you keep it cool and in a dark place (it’s a living product and will go ‘off’ in warmth & light) you’ll be good for a month. Fresh is best though.
If you’re keeping it for a while you may need to vortex it to re-structire. Check out Youtube for water vortexing ideas, I use a Tornado Tube (a kids’ toy) to connect 2 bottles together.
Hello, Russell, thanks for the video. Do you drink this water untreated? How can you be sure it is not contaminated? I drink spring water as well, but never feel really safe… How do you keep water at home?
From Russell: Hi Natalija, it’s natural to worry that the water is contaminated because we haven’t been brought up to do things this way. It’s my belief that we’re brought up as being so dependant on what we’re told is safe by the authorities that we lose our natural ability to distinguish and really think about things.
If you find a true spring that’s bringing water up from deep in the earth then I believe, as far as contamination goes, that you’ll be fine. However, if you really want to make sure 🙂 then there are places online that you can send off a sample of water to and get it tested.
I store my water in amber glass bottles at home in the garage.
My hubby and I recently started collecting spring water. We are living between a home with a basement (occasionally) and an apartment with a garage (most of the time). The apartment is in Wisconsin and it has been a rather hot summer and I worry that the garage is too warm. Currently we are reusing clear, plastic gallon water jugs. (I intend on slowly aquiring amber glass jugs for storage). We fill a couple of dozen at one time, as the spring is several hours away. Can I add a little colloidal silver to the water to help keep it bacteria free? Thanks for your advice on this
Hi Lisa, when I just looked up colloidal silver to keep things bacteria free, I did see that’s what it can be used for.
However, the issue with water is that it’s a fresh product, so will go bad if left for too long, so it’s not really a case of adding an antibacterial agent – it’s a case of keeping it fresh.
It would kind of be like expecting tomatoes to not go bad because you’ve added colloidal silver to them, does that make sense?. . .it’s a preservation problem, not a problem of bacteria as such.
So keeping it cool and in a dark place is the most important thing.