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The recommendation for survival situations is to purify, treat, or boil your water if you possibly can. If you can't, then you should consider drinking water w
by curtis 9y ago
The recommendation for survival situations is to purify, treat, or boil your water if you possibly can. If you can't, then you should consider drinking water without processing, the theory being that it's better to get sick with something that probably won't kill you in 3 days rather than die of dehydration in the next 12 hours. The calculus changes quite a bit if the unprocessed water likely won't even make you sick.
- AstralStorm 9y agoDepends on the situation. Generally in temperate climate you wouldn't dies off dehydration in 12h of even quite strenuous work. A day is typically survivable and you would have quite a range to reach something potable or appropriate hardware. Now, if you went on a trip in sunny climate, you're in luck as UV can be used to disinfect most containers. Does not take too long. In very cold climates frozen rainfall (snow, ice) is an excellent source of water if you can melt it. The highest risk is tropics, as high temperature, humidity and lack of sunlight make obtaining potable water or purifying it difficult, so unless you know which watery plants to eat you might be in serious trouble.