DIY Solar Water Distiller! - Simple Solar Water Distilling - Easy DIY (for survival/SHTF)

DIY Solar Water Distilling! Simple Solar Water Distiller! Easy DIY. Great for survival/SHTF situations. made using 2 clear (plastic or glass) bottles and glue (or tape). fill one bottle with dirty/or saltwater. then connect the second bottle and set in the sun. within a few minutes the water begins to evaporate and the other bottle collects the clean distilled water vapor. tips: make sure the bottles have an airtight connection. prop up bottles at a slight angle so as the dirty/or saltwater starts to evaporate - the max. amount of water vapor will travel up to the higher collection container. works best in bright sun.

[Lapdogst]

Drill another hole on the bottom of the freshwater part of the bottle and allow it to drip out into another container.

[sh]

I appreciate how you showed us how it worked first. and then you showed us how it was made afterwards. about 90% of the other YouTube videos do it the other way around. and sometimes they don't even show you how it works at all once you get to the end. they just waste your time with a bunch of needless chatter. anyways, great video! thanks!

[henrydaubresse]

Got paid $50 for an article for Boy's Life doing the same thing with Plastic Bags back in the early 1980s - the idea of shading the "receiver" does help a great deal.  Also a cloth moistened with dirty or salty water, then laid over the "receiver" highly increases the output if there is any breeze.

[robertjeffery]

Try shading the receiver with foil on the top and using foil under the bottle with the contaminated water to reflect sun back into it. Also add black or dark material on the contaminated side. Charcoal will work. That will improve the efficiency!

[clintgarrett]

That's a great idea! You could even drill a hole in the "clean water" bottle, where the water collects, insert a straw, and have a catch pan underneath to collect the water. That way, you wouldn't have to unscrew the bottles to collect the clean water. You'd only have to remove the dirty or salt water bottle, etc., to put new water in to be purified.

[yobrojoost]

Brilliant in its simplicity. And there's no shortage of plastic bottles!

[NSFWHarold]

Clever idea. Aside from thoughts already mentioned: glue the caps together first, then drill them.

[escapetarkov]

If in a survival situation just get ya knife out and cut the top off a smaller bottel and the botttom of a bigger one. Fold the bottom of the bigger one inwards so it creats a pocket, then put some salt water in the smaller bottle and slide it inside and stick it in the sun. Works the same, just easier when stranded. Great video! Always good to learn multiple ways of doing the same thing!

[Tom_M_Riddle]

You can also fill the dirty bottle with chopped leaves or any greenery. Won’t produce as much water but will work if you don’t have any dirty water to begin with

[lenwenzel]

Cover the receiving bottle with a wet, or moist cloth. Evaporation will cool the receiver making it faster.

[btbd]

you just saved someone that will end up on a deserted island! Awesome Idea!!! bottles are everywhere!

[marksharp]

SHIT! in a survival situation i seem to have forgot to bring my cordless drill. lol

[djcbanks]

I’ve always used the bowl in a bowl covered with plastic method but this is so genius. You won’t lose water in sealed units like this (or lose very very little depending on how well you attach the bottles to each other).

[bdcochran]

Here is what you do.
1. You run a plastic tube between the two bottles.
2. The part of the tube that extends into the dirty water section is short. It is NEVER allowed to touch the dirty water.
3. The part of the tube that extends into the clean water section is long. It nearly goes to the bottom of the upside down container. It collects a lot of water!
4. When the space in the upper, clean water container is nearly used up, you unscrew the lower, dirty water container off. Remember, you kept the tube clean. Now, insert the clean water bottle right side up, unscrew the top, Now you have almost two liters of clean water. Cap it and put it aside.

Hey people! It is really simple.

[gangleweed]

Even if I never have to resort to making fresh water from otherwise dirty water the technology and simplicity of the survival method is pure Sun had better keep shining.

[rmwtsou]

Ingenious. Thanks! may I suggest placing 1 or 2 layers of t-shirt fabric over the receiver and keeping it wet constantly with ocean water. It will work both as a sun shade as well as an evaporative cooler to improve condensation. By the way, in a survival situation, you can just duct-tape the 2 bottles together, end to end at the mouths. No need for caps or glues. There is always duct tape.

[sdimas]

Use a hot knife to carve a hole on the cap and then fuse them together by melting,

[rvrandy]

You dont need the caps, bricks drill, glue, just make a angled sand mound, then push the bottles laying in the mound with the tops firmly together, the steam from the lower bottle will rise and enter the upper bottle, cover the upper bottle with sand to help keep it cool to and all will happen faster

[Ireland]

The simple principle of this still, along with some of the comments below, leads me to a variety of other ideas. Very good starter for new ideas. Being able to think outside the box, as this video illustrates as compared to some desalinization stills available for sale( expensive at that) opens up a whole new source of drinking water.

[ebiosh]

Pre-make the glued double double bottle cap using the most common size caps, then carry that around as EDC, takes up virtually no room or weight. So when you're stuck somewhere you have the means to make this set up with bottles littered on the ground.