Where to Find Drinking Water During an Emergency
You can survive up to 30 days without food, but go just 3 days without water and you will die.
Storing water is important and I believe everyone should have a minimum of a two-week water supply on hand at all times, but it’s equally important to know where to find drinking water in case you don’t have access to your water supply. Those jugs of water sitting in your garage won’t help you when you’re stranded in a broken down car on a country road.
Below are 12 places to find drinking water in an emergency. Note—you should still purify these sources with a quality water filter.
- Garden ponds.
- Water heater tanks.
- Green bamboo shoots can be cut at the base and drained.
- Build a solar still.
- Cut down banana or plantain trees leaving about a 1-foot stump, and scoop out the center of the stump so that the hollow is bowl-shaped. Water from the roots will immediately start to fill the hollow. The first three fillings of water will be bitter but successive fillings will be palatable. The stump will supply water for up to four days, but be sure to cover it to keep out insects and debris.
- Pools.
- Melted snow can provide an abundant supply of water in a cold environment—but it’s important to not eat it frozen because you’ll have to burn additional calories to retain body temperature.
- Digging into dry stream beds or lakes can sometimes uncover water below the surface.
- Water beds.
- Water sometimes gathers in tree crotches or rock crevices. Siphon it out with a hose, suck it out with a straw, or soak it up with a rag.
- Tie rags or tufts of fine grass around your ankles and walk through dew-covered grass before sunrise. As the rags or grass tufts absorb the dew, wring the water into a container. Repeat the process until you have a supply of water or until the dew is gone. Australian natives sometimes mop up as much as a liter an hour this way.
- Milk from green coconuts can hydrate you, but avoid mature coconuts because their milk acts as a laxative which will increase dehydration.
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Where in the Sam Hill do you people get your information? Saying folks will die in 72 hour without water is…well lets just say its beyond stupid…and you cant fix stupid…stop trying to scare folks with this nonsense…if you cant back up your story with truthful facts… then for HE!!S sake don’t print it and get out of the preparedness and or survival business you don’t belong here.
Actually, he is correct in quoting U.S. Military Doctrine based on survival studies in basic testing during the 40′s and 50′s. During that time, many human endurance studies were done on troops, including maximum temperature of human endurance (410-degrees F for 10-minutes, OUCH) and both water and food starvation. During those tests, the actual requirement was that 50-percent of the test population sample was unable past that given time, to be able to further acquire such resources on their own without assistance. In other words, out of 1000 people, 500 are unable to walk or crawl and conduct such activities that they can actually effectively collect sufficient water to live after 3-days.
FYI, iamdlogan, try this exercise in Death Valley or West Texas in the summer, and chances are, you won’t make it a full day without ample water supplies and shelter. Maybe next time, you should know what you are mouthing off about, before you try to discredit actual facts?
All of this information is quite good – IF you live in the tropics. For most in temperate regions, this is about half-way inapplicable. Never drink from water within 100-ft of paved roads (petroleum runoff, salt deposits, etc.), avoid stagnant (standing) water unless you filter and boil it first, and do NOT count on plant resources to offer up water resources (no jungle vines to cut, here).
In reality, if you are standing in the middle of Missouri or Kansas, your best bet for water is to walk east or west until you come upon a flowing stream (while water flows away from the Continental Divide to the ocean, it usually takes a diagonal path more South than east-or-west, so traveling east or west will give you fastest access to it). If you are near a ridgeline or small mountain, you are more likely to find water on the south-facing side than you are in the valley in most instances (due to the water-table orientation, and this is proven by hydrological surveys). Watching for water flows, like small springs or seeps will help you find ‘developable’ water sources, and old houses (pre-1940) can often show you locations where wells are located (though may be dry, you’ll have to check this one out further).
Solar stills are the greatest theory with the least actual success rate of any ‘scientific’ method of water collection known. FORGET THEM, they will get you killed. I’d rather have a swamp, a pack of coffee filters and a cook pot to boil the water after I filter it, than all the solar stills in the world. Forget the $-hundreds for fancy filters, you can’t filter out metals or viruses. A simple double-stacked automatic-drip coffee filter is good for particles down to 50-microns (that’s small, folks). Simply filter your water through two of them, then boil it for 10-minutes (per Red Cross). You now have filtered water as good as most municipal systems. Smell bad still? Take some oak char from a fire pit you burned, crush it up, put it into another couple of coffee filters, and pour your water over it. Now you have charcoal filtered water that killed the odor or taste (and helped soak up any lingering chemicals or pesticides that may have remained).