Problem: Article: To disinfect your water, you'll need a clean pot as well as clean containers to store the water in after you've disinfected it. Your storage containers should have lids that will close tightly, to ensure the water doesn't become contaminated again. If you're reusing bottles, use soft drink bottles rather than bottles that previously held milk or fruit juice. Milk and juice sugars contribute to bacterial growth in stored water. Clean bottles thoroughly using a dish soap. You can also sanitize bottles with 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of household chlorine bleach for every quart (liter) of water. While disinfection kills most microorganisms that could cause health problems, it doesn't get rid of heavy metals, salts, and other chemicals. Before you disinfect your water, pour it through a cloth or coffee filter to help eliminate these contaminants. You can also let your water sit in bottles for several hours before disinfecting it. The heavier particles will settle to the bottom, and you can pour the water from the top of the bottle, leaving the sediment behind. Fill a large pot or kettle with water and bring it to a rolling boil. Allow the water to boil for at least a minute and as long as 5 minutes. Some of your water will evaporate. Let the water cool before trying to drink it or pouring it into plastic bottles. Boiling water is the safest and most effective way to clean it so that it will be drinkable. Boiled water tastes better if you add oxygen to it by pouring it back and forth several times between two clean containers. If you're out in the wilderness or don't have electricity, you can still boil water over a fire, or by gradually adding externally heated rocks to the water until it begins to boil. Household liquid bleach also kills microorganisms in water. Use only regular household bleach that contains between 5.25 and 6 percent sodium hypochlorite. Your bleach should be unscented, contain no other cleaners or chemicals, and come from a new or recently opened bottle. Add 16 drops of bleach to 1 gallon (3.8L) of water. Stir and let it stand for 30 minutes. The water should have a slight bleach odor. If it doesn't, repeat the method and let it stand for another 15 minutes. Water disinfected with bleach that does not have a slight bleach odor is not safe to drink. Find another source of water, or use another method of disinfection. If you can't boil water and don't have any bleach, you can harness the energy of the sun to disinfect your water. All you need are some soft drink bottles with caps. Fill your bottles with water and close the caps tightly. Set the bottles out in an area where they will receive at least 6 hours of direct sunlight. After 6 hours, the water is safe to drink. This method only works with PET bottles. Glass blocks crucial UV rays that are needed to properly disinfect the water. For best results, place your bottles on a conductive material, such as a tin roof, and angle them towards the sun.
Summary: Get a clean pot and clean storage containers. Strain your water. Boil your water. Chlorinate your water. Use the solar water disinfection (SODIS) method.

Problem: Article: Open the window and place your fan in the windowsill. Make sure it's balanced. Then, lower the top panel of the window until it's securely pressing down against the top of the fan. This will prevent the fan from slipping out of place and either falling into your home or down outside of your home. If your windows open sideways rather than vertically, open the window wide enough to accommodate the width of the fan. Then close the window so the fan is held in place between the sliding window pane and the wall. The fans won't be able to effectively cool your home if there are gaps between the sides of the window frame and the edges of your fans. Tape paper over the gaps on the inside of the window beside inward-blowing fans. Or, pull out the plastic extender panels on the sides of the fan to keep air from escaping beside the fans. Blocking the gaps beside fans blowing outward is difficult. Tape up paper or cardboard on the outside of the window, if it's accessible. If you can't access the outside of the window, securely tape the paper or cardboard down on the inside of the window. If it's warmer outside than inside, your fans will blow hot air around. So, turn the fans on when it's cooler outside in order to bring in cool air and lower the temperature inside your home. This will also reduce your need to use air conditioning during the day, since your home will have cooled off at night. Turn off and remove the fans before you close the windows and blinds or drapes on warm days. Shutting the blinds or drapes will reduce solar heating. If you leave the fans on during the heat of the day, they'll blow hot air into the home. Removing fans from windows when not in use might be difficult for the elderly or disabled individuals. In such cases, leave the fans in the windows. Select a size of towel that matches the size of the fan. So, if the fan is 18 inches (46cm) across, use a towel with roughly the same width. The wet towel will dramatically increase the fans' cooling performance for about 1 hour. The air propelled by the fan will push past the towel and the cold water will lower the temperature of the air.
Summary: Close each window tightly around the fan to hold it in place. Cover gaps on either side of the fans if they're smaller than the frame. Turn on window fans at night when it's cooler outside than inside. Remove the fans and close the windows when it's warm outside. Drape a cold, wet towel over inward-blowing fans when it's hot out.

Problem: Article: If you are considering a long-term, committed relationship, one of the things you will have to confront is the question, "Do we want children?" If you two cannot agree on this point, you may not be compatible. Be honest. If you do not desire a child, but your partner does, it is best to know this before investing years in a relationship that might end because of this conflict. This conversation must have "only two people in the room". That means the wishes, opinions, and dreams of your relatives must not factor in. If your significant other says something like, "But I don't want to disappoint my mother..." politely remind them that this is between the two of you, not anyone else. Let your partner stand up for you. If you get hounded by friends or family for not having a child, let your partner speak up for you. If the topic is a sensitive one, ask them to answer for you. If someone is pestering you with questions, let your partner speak up or jump in with a response, and if they need support, do the same for your partner. For example, you can say, "I'll let my partner answer this question" or you can say to your partner, "Can you answer this question?" If you don't want to continue answering the same questions for the next 25+ years, you must stand firm to your choice. If you are in a relationship or marriage, tell your partner to take the same kind yet firm position when speaking about children. Being squishy and avoiding a direct answer will only give your relatives hope that you will recant one day. Have a discussion with your partner about how to respond when people ask about children. Discuss having a standard response back, such as, "We're choosing not to have children. We'll let you know if we change our minds."
Summary:
Have a conversation with your partner. Provide support for each other. Get on the same page with your partner.