Publisher's Synopsis
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.
