That Water is Unsafe to Drink
Taking a nice cool drink from a crystal clear mountain stream could be one of the biggest mistakes of your life. Here's why...Better than Bleach: Use Calcium Hypochlorite to Disinfect Water
Bleach can be used for chemically disinfecting water to make it safe to drink. What you may not know is that bleach has a short shelf life. Using bleach that is more than a few months old could put you at risk.
A much better alternative to bleach for disinfecting water is Calcium Hypochlorite. Read about it here...
Does Bleach Expire?
Making Water Safe to Drink Video
Making your water safe to drink is of great importance in wilderness survival. This video covers several methods of filtering water, from the primitive to high tech...A Reader's Boiling Water Experiment
A Survival Topics reader shares his boiling water to make it safe to drink experiment, with a twist...
Survival Topics Boiling Water Article has World Wide Influence
The watershed article about the length of time needed to boil water to make it safe to drink has had a world wide impact in fuel consumption and the saving of thousands of acres of forestland...How to Make a Solar Water Survival Still
A solar still can be used to generate fresh drinking water from just about anything that has moisture - damp earth, brackish sea water, or undrinkable swamp water. Here is how to make your own solar water still...How Long Must Water Be Boiled Revisited
The Survival Topic "How Long Do You Need to Boil Water" has been one of the more popular topics on this site. This article goes a step further, giving evidence as to why so many of us have been wasting so much fuel trying to make water safe to drink...How Long Do You Need To Boil Water?
Boiling water has always been the best way to destroy disease causing organisms and make it safe to drink. Problem is, just how long does it need to be boiled? There is a great deal of misinformation out there on this important subject. Survival Topics sets it straight...Water Discipline
Knowing how to effectively manage your water supply is an indication of your survival expertise. Only through experience does the student of survival fully discover the importance of water discipline. Here is my own hard won advice ...How Your Body Loses Water
Water is essential to life, and in a survival situation may be worth more than it's weight in gold. Limiting water loss from the body is very important. Here is what will rob you of your water and what you can do...Water Purification 101
Never trust any untested water source, no matter how clean it looks. Even the most crystal clear water can harbor disease organisms that at best may make you sick and at worst take your life.
For an introduction on how to make water safe to drink, read on...
Make Your Own Emergency Drinking Water Pouches
Commercially available emergency drinking water supplies are expensive and all too often contaminated. There may also be problems with emergency water containers bursting due to freezing. There is a solution: make your own emergency water supply containers...
How Do You Make Water Safe to Drink?
If you had to choose the one best way to make water safe to drink, what would it be?
Even treated water can be bad water if you use inferior materials or methods. Just because you have a faucet filter or have put a chemical into your water does not mean the disease organisms have been destroyed.
Required reading for anyone who wants to survive.
The Best Way to Make Water Safe to Drink
Water is the basis of all life. But in a survival situation water can also threaten your life in the form of disease carrying organisms. When water is suspected of being contaminated there are a number of common methods used in an attempt to make the water safe to drink. But are they truly safe?
Don't wonder anymore. Read this article and find the truth. It could save your life...
When Water Becomes Scarce
I don't know about you, but as soon as I think about going without water I get thirsty. It is said that many of us routinely live in various states of dehydration because we do not drink enough water on a day to day basis. When you are even just a little dehydrated your physical and mental efficiency drops off dramatically and you set yourself up for a variety of health problems. In a survival situation when you need to function at your peak, the last thing you want to be is dehydrated.
How do you know when you are properly hydrated? One rule of thumb is that you should urinate “gin clear” at least once a day to insure you are drinking enough water and properly flushing out the waste materials your body processes. Dark yellow urine is sure sign you have not been drinking enough water.
How Long Can You Survive Without Water?
Here we find out how long a person can survive without water. We also look into how long you can survive with limited amounts of water over various temperatures in a survival situation.Solar Water Disinfection
In a survival situation, access to safe sources of water is not always possible. Solar Water Disinfection, or SODIS, is a simple and readily available method to disinfect water using sunlight and plastic bottles.Other Survival Topics Pages: Home Page | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0
