A Field Guide to Clean Drinking Water: How to Find, Assess, Treat, and Store It

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How to find and prepare safe drinking water―anywhere, any time! Clean drinking water may be the last thing we think about day to day―but it’s the first thing we need in an emergency. Now, survival expert and biologist Joe Vogel explains how to find, treat, and store safe drinking water―even in the most extreme conditions. A Field Guide to Clean Drinking Water includes information about: The role of water in the body and how to calculate your water requirement Plants, geographical features, and more indicators that signal the presence of water How to collect dew and precipitation, and extract water from plants How to screen “raw water” for bacteria, pesticides, and other contaminants Every purifying method from boiling techniques to chemical disinfection And storage options that meet every need. Small enough to take anywhere―and broad enough to cover everything―this is a vital manual for backpackers, survivalists, and anyone who may need to know how to create their own drinking water. 190 color photographs and illustrations Review: Solid Book, Very thorough. - Solid Book, Very thorough. Review: Great thorough book on water security - I have a few wells and live on a river. My wells are all different. My house well has aqueous salt which is nearly impossible to filter out. My wells off the river are great. This book gave me a lot of ideas for off-grid water security that I have found in no other books to this level of detail and easy to understand methods and data. It also has lots of tips for camping, traveling, and permenant setups. How to eyeball clean water, how to test it, how to filter it, risks. Really thorough but also simple enough to do it yourself. Highly recommended to anyone interested in getting quality H20, wherever you are.