Talk:Purified water

Where Does It Come From?
Where does the purified water come from? All natural water and water from sinks and toilets in the wasteland is irradiated. Perhaps other people escaped from vaults, taking lots of pure water with them? Maybe perhaps many people from the wasteland are in fact escapees from vaults? It honestly does not make sense where the water comes from, except the water you get from Wadsworth or Godfrey. Saikotik 11:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Have you been to tenpenny tower yet?all of the water systems(toilets and sinks) are purified,so it sems that tenpenny tower is one of few places to have a fully functional water purifier,still weird how you cant get free purified water in there though

Apparently, everyone apart from the PC has the idea of using empty bottles with purified water from sinks. Megaton also has its own purifier. No clue as to how they work... I can only assume that the water chips from dead vaults were scavenged or something.

A water chip isn't necessary for purifying water, unless you're spending potentially thousands of years in a sealed environment with limited resources. In the wastes water can be purified with scavenged pre-war tech, clever tinkering, inventiveness, or some combination of those. With Tenpenny, I'm just guessing he was lucky enough to find it all laid out in working order for him to take.

Purifying water is a simple matter, actually, with the right materials. all you need is a clear sheet (plastic wrap or glass, perhaps) suspended above a pool of the water to be purified. The water is best put on a black metal surface, and in the most sunny place you can find. the water will eventually evaporate, leaving most pollutants behind. You can then collect the water droplets from the clear material. Doing this en mass would yield enough water to survive on- you just need to refill the purifier and collect from it daily. Also, there ARE working,purifier devices, such as the condensation collector your FO3 Mr. Handy has, which works off of the same principle, but just collecting the water from the air. Nathan Hale 16:29, November 7, 2010 (UTC)

I dont get why that river in the mojave wasteland is purified. Because all the oceans seem to be irradiated. For example if you have played on point lookout the water there is irradiated and thats on the beach. Maybe the NCR has a purifier simular to the one used in fallout 3 to clean out the water so that people in california and in other areas can have access to clean water.
 * Please sign your posts. Anyway, rivers originate at lakes, not oceans, so the ocean radioactivity is not important at all. The source of the river, in the Rockies of Colorado, may not have been in a bombed area, and therefore not irradiated. Also, whatever radiation and irradiated tributary water may have been diluted to the point that it appears pure. Also, there may be some purification, but not quite on Project-Purity-scale. Nathan Hale 19:55, December 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Remember that only 9 of 77 atomic warheads were capable of hitting the Mojave/Las Vegas area, so it makes a lot of sense being able to find more purified water than in FO3. And after more than 200 years A LOT of the deadly radiation of this bombs mostly dissipate or become inert, as the Chernobyl disaster teached us (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Residual_radioactivity_in_the_environment) Brfritos 08:42, December 15, 2010 (UTC).

Nellis air base.
I was in nellis air base, playing hardcore of course and at one point in my game the merchant in the munitions and supplies was selling 90 purified waters! at the time I didn't need the water, and at 1 pound each I didn't think I should buy them. but now I regret it, I could have stowed it away somewhere. now the npc only sells the usual 3 or so purified waters. I'll keep an eye out though. 76.198.70.129 04:40, July 3, 2011 (UTC)