Question:
Chlorine Bleach usage in Water Purification Questionable.

Here is the situation.I got to come home for the holler days (So named due to the tendenciesof familles to get together on such days, all in the same place, at thesame time, and holler at each other and went out to my land to messaround.

Out there is a small artesian well (commonly called a mud puddle thatwon't go away during drought time) and I have been messing with it inthe thought that I would use it as a watering hole for wildlife andstock, as well as possibly a sort of gazing pool or something.

Haven't quite pined down just what I am going to do with it yet, and inany case, I was out there looking.I find that now this pool is way infested with mosquitoes.Dozens of there larva is swimming around it there.

So I figure, bleach is supposed to kill anything in water so I candrink it.And I have dipped out this pool before, and know that it containsaround 15 gallons of water, and is refilled in around 2 hours.So I figure, massive over kill would be about 1/4 gallon of standardbleach.Well, after about 2 hours I come back and the larva are still goingstrong.So it gets the other 3/4 gallon of bleach.About 1 hour later, there is some larva death, but not totaldestruction.

Due to this experiment, I am now planing to go with boiling for my onlyacceptable water purification method.

And considering filling the mud hole in and planting a fruit tree wherethe tree will be able to get to the water.

And putting water out for the animals to drink, by building an officialgold fish pond or something like that.

Answer: Develop it. Run the water through a cistern first, then let therunover puddle up and grow the skeeters. Draw your water from thecistern, not the puddle. Purify the drawn water on a "batch" basis,not continuously.