Hey this is definitely a concern of mine as well. A desalinator has more cycles and is more universal, however I will take what comes. The difference in cost is immense. The machine itself is in the 300 usd range, replacement filters for the Itehil are 30 - 40 usd range, compared to a desalinator which costs minimum 3000 usd.

@@sailorama Well that's not so bad I guess, those filters are about double what standard house water filters that just remove chlorine and metallic taste from tap water are here in Australia, so for filters that are making clean water from brackish? river water, it seems reasonable given the cost of the machine, this is much better that I was concerned about 👍

Yes, an emergency solar still (on land) can be built with a plastic bottle and plastic bag, placed strategically into sand or dirt. I would like to do a test/experiment/practice video about that sometime!

5L/hour sounds fine as long as the power use is economical 👍🏼

@ yes it runs about 3 to 4 amps. We normally run it 1 or 2 hours a day

2L / day /person is the minimum for survival, so if it's only 2 of you a few hours a day is plenty to have a comfortable amount of water 👍sounds like you have a great system

@ two adults and one baby, every now and again we run it for 5 hours, we have enough solar that it basically doesn't matter. we have lived aboard for 6 years so quite comfortable managing our water supply.

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I'm not sure what you mean...perhaps asking what do locals drink? They use a combination of river water (different levels of filtration systems), rainwater, and store-bought water.

@ I’ve seen other KZbin channels in dinghies filing their jugs from pipes coming down from up high. Granted those sailors weren’t from the US, so maybe not an option for us?

Ah, the runoff/rainwater - we saw local people collecting water coming down from the cliffs as well. The problem is the same as when I collect rain water. Birds and other animals can poop 'upstream' from where you are collecting. the water can be relatively clean, but less clean than Reverse Osmosis filtration.

@@sailorama thanks for the clarification…IF I make it there, gonna go German like my ancestors & drink that sh*t.😂

Itehil says that the filters make between 400 to 800 gallons before they need replacing.

You bring up a good point that I did not discuss - technically those 12 parts per million could be some deadly, toxic remaining parts. The TDS only allows me to compare and contrast numbers. It's clear that that filters are removing the majority of particles in the water. I would need to do buy a testing kit to find out exactly what is left 👍🏼

Thank you, we also think so!

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Sure, I get it - government agency was not working properly for the people - better break it more though? I looked up the celdf. Thank you for the info 👍🏼

Well, we sure are needing it now 👏

I'm talking about it because it's so important to life 🌏 Thanks as always!

Thank you for watching despite all the dog hairs 😂

I'm happy to have water filtration, but not happy that more land-lubbers need water filtration 😕

Things go in cycles, and finding a few good places to be on our boats for the best life has to offer is essential. Glad you are "there."

Thanks for the question! The plastic itself held up, however the glue did not hold up. I think that a design held together by soft-shackle would be best 👍🏼

Thank you!

Yeah tiny boats are best for most, these days. Unless you can pull a crew together and have several owners working together to run the vessel. Returning to Canada is beyond our budget, unfortunately.

Thank you! The paint is holding up!

Thank you - all very true!

Thanks, we don't often get that comment because everything is such a jury-rig all the time 😂

You call me radicalized and imply that I am anti-Jewish, but let me make this clear: I only point out the utter importance of mentioning genocide because I don't want what happened to Jewish people to happen ever again, to anyone. I have heard every single excuse that you wrote many times before in many different ways - all I can do implore you to take the advice you gave - to give a thought to the other side. Who has the power to not kill hundreds of people each week with endless advanced weaponry? You pointed it out yourself. Meanwhile, I think that we in the West should not fight each other, because with the incoming nazi regime (no, that is not an overstatement) there is a very real possibility that there will be an attempt to erase the powerless. You have helped Robi and me so much. You have our respect completely - so I would not say these things to you if I was not 100 percent factually certain of what the danger is, and not 100 percent feeling it in every fiber of my being that killing a trapped population is wrong.

I don't watch one channel exclusively, I don't have any one voice in particular who I think you should listen to in order to understand my perspective, but youtube served up this video at random. The cycle of violence can only stop if people talk it through: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpvYfYWfbpWeiMksi=ifZdFBSXtJwrC6k7

@@sailorama I didn't call you radicalized or mean to imply that you are anti-Jewish; words matter. I said: "It appears by the words you chose that you are being radicalized by social media". Notice the use of the word "appears", I left it open to the possibility that you haven't been since I am lacking data that shows conclusively that you have been radicalized by social media(sorry if that sounds condescending). I see it a lot these days. I was talking about how anti-Israel/Jewish content works and thrives and didn't mean to imply that you yourself are anti-Jewish. That was not my intent and intent matters. The Nazi's intended to wipe out the Jews just as many Palestinian Arabs intend to wipe out the Jews("from the River to the Sea" and beyond) and have no problem saying it. Israel has demonstrated no intent to wipe out Arab Palestinians while they have demonstrated repeatedly that they prefer peaceful co-existence and that they are willing to work towards peace. I take issue with your use of the word genocide as someone who lost all of his European ancestry to the Nazis. Israel is in a hybrid war with an aggressor sponsored by the likes of Iran/Russia/Middle East who uses children as human shields. They aren't trying to commit a genocide and if they were they are doing a really bad job of it given their capabilities. It's interesting/disappointing how my statement of facts regarding how the cycle of violence works within Palestinian society is an "excuse". That shows possible bias and doesn't look good from where I am sitting. Excuse for what? What do you think Free Palestine means? What do you think would happen if Israel completely abandoned the West Bank? My informed opinion is that the extremists would take over like they did in Gaza, throw their opposition from the roofs and use the West Bank to attack Israel. Do you have a different opinion? Maybe you can explain how Israel can eliminate Hamas while inflicting the fewest amount of casualties on their side? Or do you think Israel should just ignore Hamas and allow themselves to be attacked by rockets on the daily until they are organized enough to invade, murder and kidnap again? What do you think about the settlers? Should Israel enforce the ethnic cleansing committed against the Jews in the West Bank and East Jerusalem by removing the settlers? What would that solve and how would that be right? Why is Jews re-settling the land wrong? It didn't work in Gaza when they left in 2005. This topic is nuanced and complicated and I am intimately familiar with it so feel free to ask me what I think and why. But don't try to diminish verifiable facts as "excuses" when they are the root cause of the ongoing conflict. That cause is education and how children are raised right now and for many decades and that education has been based on hate(it's in their textbooks and cartoons starting at childhood). In Gaza they send their children to Hamas "summer camps" to learn how to use weapons to attack Israel and kill Jews(this is a fact). The fact is that a large portion of Palestinian society doesn't want their own State as long as Israel exists and they don't want to co-exist with Jews as equals so saying things like "Free Palestine" is naive and really only serves to help the likes of Iran/Russia and their terrorist proxies. I'm not saying that's your intention. What does "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" mean to you? Because from where I am sitting, it is a call for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews. Just as Free Palestine has become a dog whistle for that same genocide so be careful how you use it because many are raised to interpret it that way. I'd like to assume your intentions are good but I live in a crazy world right now where I'm watching the destruction of my country in real-time. It's really easy to point fingers without offering solutions. I believe Golda Meir was right when she said there would be peace when the Arabs loved their children more than they hate Israel. You can see it reflected in modern Arab Palestinian society today. Stop teaching your children that Israel and Jews are something that should be destroyed and they won't grow up wanting to destroy them.

​@@sailorama I didn't call you radicalized or mean to imply that you are anti-Jewish; words matter. I said: "It appears by the words you chose that you are being radicalized by social media". Notice the use of the word "appears", I left it open to the possibility that you haven't been since I am lacking data that shows conclusively that you have been radicalized by social media(sorry if that sounds condescending). I see it a lot these days. I was talking about how anti-Israel/Jewish content works and thrives and didn't mean to imply that you yourself are anti-Jewish. That was not my intent and intent matters. The Nazi's intended to wipe out the Jews just as many Palestinian Arabs intend to wipe out the Jews("from the River to the Sea" and beyond) and have no problem saying it. Israel has demonstrated no intent to wipe out Arab Palestinians while they have demonstrated repeatedly that they prefer peaceful co-existence. I take issue with your use of the word genocide as someone who lost all of his European ancestry to the Nazis. Israel is at war with an aggressor sponsored by the likes of Iran/Russia/Middle East. They aren't trying to commit a genocide and if they were they are doing a really bad job of it given their capabilities. It's interesting/disappointing how my statement of facts regarding how the cycle of violence works within Palestinian society is an "excuse". That shows possible bias and doesn't look good from where I am sitting. Excuse for what? What do you think Free Palestine means? What do you think would happen if Israel completely abandoned the West Bank? My informed opinion is that the extremists would take over like they did in Gaza, throw their opposition from the roofs and use the West Bank to attack Israel. Do you have a different opinion? Maybe you can explain how Israel can eliminate Hamas while inflicting the fewest amount of casualties on their side? Or do you think Israel should just ignore Hamas and allow themselves to be attacked by rockets on the daily until they are organized enough to invade and murder again? What do you think about the settlers? Should Israel uphold the ethnic cleansing committed against the Jews in the West Bank and East Jerusalem by removing the settlers? What would that solve and how would that be right? It didn't work in Gaza when they left in 2005. This topic is nuanced and complicated and I am intimately familiar with it so feel free to ask me what I think and why. But don't try to diminish verifiable facts as "excuses" when they are the root cause of the ongoing conflict. That cause is education and how children are raised right now and for many decades and that education has been based on hate(it's in their textbooks and cartoons starting at childhood). They send their children to Hamas "summer camps" to learn how to use weapons to attack Israel and kill Jews(this is a fact). The fact is that a large portion of Palestinian society doesn't want their own State as long as Israel exists and they don't want to co-exist with Jews so saying things like "Free Palestine" is naive and really only serves to help the likes of Iran/Russia and their terrorist proxies. I'm not saying that's your intention. What does "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" mean to you? Because from where I am sitting, it is a call for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews. Just as Free Palestine has become a dog whistle for that same genocide so be careful how you use it because many are raised to interpret it that way. It's easy to point fingers without offering solutions. What do you think the solution is? What do you think Israel could reasonably do differently?

@@sailorama Sounds nice but naive given the situation. The Palestinian citing roadblocks and walls as a barrier to talking ignores the fact that those barriers and walls are there as a direct result of violence committed against Israelis by Palestinians and puts the blame on Israel for building them. This is pretty typical for the pro-Palestine side. If only the Jews didn't build those pesky walls and checkpoints they would be talking and co-existing in peace right now. /s

'Shut up, put your head down, don't even mention your fellow creators being genocided' -- that's what you sound like to me. Bye!

​@@sailorama Please stop misusing the word genocide. Your fellow content creators are not being genocided, they are caught in the middle of a hybrid war in which their side uses them as human shields in order to create as many casualties as possible so that they can use it as propaganda against Israel. Hamas leaders have openly admitted it, it is a verifiable fact. That's why they build tunnels for terror and not bomb shelters for civilians.

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Thank you for the appreciation!

I'm a human being just like they are, and so I'm a channel for that sort of subject ❤️

Just because we're on the water doesn't mean politics and religion don't affect us. We're whole people with whole lives.

@@sailorama Right on, Justine! ♥

Thank you - yes I'm the kind of lucky person who hears something nice each day from others. I hope the same for you! Cheers from both of us!

Hahaha! You know it!

I appreciate your comment because it assures me that folks need to hear it from ‘non-political’ voices most of all at this point.

Absolutely - when my outboard went into the water, my first thought was learning opportunity!

Thank you 🙏 Knowing that people like you are appreciating keeps us going.

I agree - we're so lucky!

True - that is a kind of freedom.

So glad you found us and enjoy :)

One of many ✌️

I think Rio Dulce is a pretty good cruiser community - we know there are others out there too!

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I answered this - I think my response was censored.

​@@sailoramainteresting times...

@@cezarparra6174they are evil people and not the chosen people

Thank you. Cheers from us too!

Thank you - I sense that telling the truth will only get more complicated from now on.

Thanks, that means a lot!

We need to act more like it, exactly. The world feels really bad - but small window wins feel good, I have to admit. Thanks as always for watching!

I feel like I can't emphasize it enough!

Like all politicians, he's not good at telling the truth or keeping promises, but I will cheers with you in the spirit of solidarity. We're gonna need all the good will and cooperation that we can get in the coming years!

Cheers to you! No one is free until Palestine is free ✌️

@@sailorama exactly .

Thanks, happy new year to you too

@@sailorama you have a great message about community, as we are full time liveaboards ourselves we completely agree. Also being thankful for the freedoms we have while keeping those less fortunate than us in our thoughts.

Forgot to mention it is a nesting 2 part dinghy

Thanks! I looked it up. We ended up fixing up a fatty knees instead 👍🏼

Thanks! Happy to share the info - hope your trip is fantastic!