My understanding is that it won’t. It has carbon that does help with chemicals but it’s not near on the level as say a Berkey filter is. It’s made for mild chemical contaminants in your typical tap water. Not heavily treated pool water.

My biggest question as someone who lives near the “locked and loaded” San Andreas is how to store items in an emergency kit *outdoors*. The reason is this: Conceivably if there is enough damage to a building it won’t be possible to dig through the rubble to find one’s buried emergency kit and if that kit includes food and water, it could be crushed and/or the water may have leaked out. However, the problem with outdoor storage of emergency supplies is how to keep medications and first aid supplies from being damaged due to seasonal high/low weather changes.

I searched high and low for some kind of super-insulated cooler but in doing tests outdoors in a shaded location I found that the interior of an ice chest was still reaching 85F in the summer. (They really aren’t designed to be used without ice.) I gave up and bought a few trash cans on wheels and stocked those up with supplies last summer but I’m fairly sure it went bad in a matter of weeks.

If having your emergency medications, first aid supplies, food and/or water destroyed by heat and cold were the choice, what would be the best time of year to refresh the aforementioned in a kit? Would it be better to stock the kit in the late fall on the assumption that medications, food, water and similar can last longer in cold weather or restock in the Spring at the risk it will be damaged by mid/late summer?

In summary, I am confused on how to maximize longevity of emergency kit supplies using above-ground storage and haven’t found any advice.

Is there a water filter I can use to make my pool water drinkable? For example, what if I use a filtration device I would use when I go hiking?

That will kill any pathogens but the chemicals will remain. Usually, the biological contaminants aren’t the issue in chlorinates pool water… it’s all the chemicals that you need to get rid of.