Primitive Camping & Bushcraft

Mastering Water Safety: From Creek to Cup for Every Camper

Episode Summary

Talk about the essentials of water purification in the wild, from methods like boiling and filtering to real-life examples of common risks. This episode equips listeners with practical techniques to ensure safe, drinkable water on every camping or bushcraft adventure.

Episode Notes

 

Show Notes: In this episode of the Primitive Camping and Bushcraft Podcast, host Chris Speir walks through one of the most vital aspects of wilderness survival: water purification. He shares an in-depth look at different methods, including boiling, filtering, and even distillation, and discusses the common risks posed by contaminants like protozoa, bacteria, and viruses. With real-life examples, including stories of adventurers who encountered Giardia and cryptosporidium, Chris emphasizes why simply drinking from a clear stream can be dangerous without proper preparation. For those new to bushcraft or seasoned wilderness experts, this episode is packed with actionable insights and essential tips to ensure safe hydration on any outdoor adventure.

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Don’t Miss Out! Tune in for a deep dive into water safety and get practical advice on how to keep yourself healthy and hydrated on your next camping or bushcraft outing.

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Episode Transcription

 

 

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Welcome back to the Primitive Camping

 

and Bushcraft Podcast.

 

My name's Chris Speir,

 

and I'm gonna be your guide

 

to enjoying the great outdoors.

 

So I'm feeling a

 

little bit better this week.

 

Last week I was, oh, wow.

 

I didn't even think I was

 

gonna get an episode out,

 

but I did.

 

So today we're gonna kick

 

off into the chapter of water.

 

And we've done this before

 

at a 35,000 foot overview.

 

We did the whole chapter in one episode,

 

but this time we're gonna break down

 

but this time we're gonna break down

 

all the different aspects of this water

 

all the different aspects of this water

 

in a week by week basis.

 

in a week by week basis.

 

And so now I got some

 

embarrassing stuff to say

 

is that I did this

 

whole episode a while ago

 

and forgot to hit record on the camera.

 

(laughing) Oh, well, silly me.

 

But anyway, let's get to it.

 

But anyway, let's get to it.

 

So we're not always gonna

 

have clean water sources

 

with us whenever we

 

get out into the woods.

 

It's just not gonna happen.

 

And it weighs way too much to carry.

 

And that's one of the

 

things about being able to drink

 

out of a river or lake or stream

 

or some aspect of someplace, you know,

 

and depending on where your location is.

 

Being here in South Mississippi,

 

we got rivers, lakes, ponds, mud bottles,

 

being up in the north,

 

you got probably frozen ice and snow.

 

you got probably frozen ice and snow.

 

And you have to melt that

 

stuff and stuff like that

 

to get some stuff to

 

drink whenever you're out

 

in the great outdoors.

 

Now, I'm not gonna go in

 

detail about finding your water

 

because if you're going camping

 

and you're practicing

 

bushcraft and all that,

 

you know how to find your water.

 

You should know where to find water.

 

So this ain't a survival

 

aspect as much as it is.

 

Just making sure you stay safe

 

when you're out into the great outdoors.

 

Now, one of the main things,

 

you found your water source,

 

you have a creek, you have

 

a river, you have a lake,

 

you have something like that.

 

you have something like that.

 

Something like that, you know.

 

The biggest and most important aspect

 

of making this water drinkable

 

is the danger of protozoa

 

is the danger of protozoa

 

and bacteria and viruses.

 

Now, protozoa are

 

cryptosporidium and Giardia

 

and they're a biological contaminant

 

that they make you sick.

 

They really do, they will make you sick.

 

They really do, they will make you sick.

 

If you've ever seen

 

that TV show on Netflix,

 

it's called Outlast.

 

And this is one of

 

And this is one of

 

the most recent examples

 

of what I'm talking about,

 

of what I'm talking about,

 

is that there was a lady on there

 

that she was one of the survivalists,

 

one of the contestants on there.

 

She left one camp, was gonna walk around

 

the lake that they were on

 

and meet up with one of the other camps

 

and join their team, okay?

 

and join their team, okay.

 

So, I mean, it's a

 

total different dynamic.

 

You have to watch it, you know.

 

But, so what happened is

 

she was walking around,

 

it was a 12 kilometer

 

it was a 12 kilometer

 

hike, something to that effect,

 

and she was trying to

 

get there before dark.

 

And she was thirsty, she

 

didn't bring any gear with her

 

or anything like that,

 

and she saw water coming

 

out of the rocks, out of

 

out of the rocks, out of

 

the moss, off of the bank,

 

coming down the hill.

 

And she's like, oh man,

 

that's gotta be filtered,

 

it's gotta be good, I

 

am just gonna bottoms up.

 

am just gonna bottoms up.

 

Man, she did, she drank it.

 

Now, the problem with that was

 

that was it didn't affect her

 

it didn't affect her right away,

 

right away, it's not

 

it's not gonna affect you right away.

 

gonna affect you right away.

 

But, several days later,

 

she got extremely sick.

 

she got extremely sick.

 

Massive diarrhea,

 

Massive diarrhea,

 

vomiting, stuff like that.

 

And from the

 

cryptosporidium or the Giardia,

 

which most times it's Giardia,

 

which is another name of beaver fever.

 

And it is a thing called

 

And it is a thing called

 

Giardiasis, Giardiasis.

 

And that's not Giardiasis,

 

and it's a bunch of Giardia.

 

And it's where you get

 

sick as an old, you do.

 

You can get dehydrated real

 

quick, you can't keep enough

 

because you're all constantly

 

diarrhea-ing it out,

 

and you got it coming out of both ends.

 

So this stuff is nasty, and

 

it is one of the most common

 

waterborne illnesses

 

here in the United States.

 

And so I can't speak

 

for the rest of the world,

 

but I do know here in

 

the United States, Canada,

 

it is one of the most nastiest things

 

that we got in water.

 

Yeah, I can't say nastiest,

 

but it is one of the things

 

in here that's dangerous, you know?

 

So the stuff that I listed in

 

the book is not an exhaustive

 

list of everything that

 

you can catch, you know?

 

But it does, any of

 

these will cause horrible

 

health symptoms such as

 

gastroenteritis, severe cramping,

 

abdominal pain, dehydration, diarrhea,

 

dehydration, diarrhea, and each of them

 

and each of them can last a

 

few days to several weeks.

 

In the extreme case of

 

diarrhea, it could lead to dehydration

 

and the last thing that you

 

want when you're wandering

 

the woods, you know, because

 

you don't want to be running

 

out through the woods and

 

can't keep your pants up,

 

you know, because

 

you're pooing and throwing up

 

and all that good stuff.

 

So, but even scarier

 

than that is the viruses.

 

Viruses are extremely

 

scary, but they're not as big

 

of a health risk as the other ones,

 

the protozoa or the bacterias.

 

Now bacteria, you know,

 

will, bacteria will knock you out

 

and it's E. coli and stuff like that.

 

Now, mentioning

 

bacteria, Clay Hayes did a video

 

Hayes did a video on YouTube,

 

on YouTube, a whole

 

series, several videos in a row,

 

where he, if you don't

 

know who Clay Hayes is,

 

he's one of the

 

winners of the alone TV show

 

and he did a video on the gypsy wells

 

and the arty coyote wells and then he

 

did water filtration.

 

He took some straight

 

out of a swamp or a bog

 

and he took all these water samples

 

and he sent them off to the lab.

 

Then he took boiled

 

water, sent it to the lab.

 

Then he took, you know, filtered water,

 

they filtered to the

 

lab and he was come back

 

and it had either some of

 

it has some E. coli present,

 

no E. coli present or I wouldn't touch it

 

because it has so much E. coli present.

 

And, you know, so, but

 

interestingly enough,

 

he did the gypsy whale or coyote whale

 

because a lot of people's

 

like, hey, you can't say gypsy.

 

I was like, buddy, I

 

could say whatever I want.

 

Toodaloo.

 

(laughs)

 

You know, I could say whatever I want.

 

I don't care if it

 

I don't care if it

 

offends you, I'm sorry.

 

No, I'm not sorry.

 

Anyway, but anyway, the,

 

(laughs)

 

the gypsy whale or

 

coyote whale is a hole dug

 

three to four feet

 

away from a water source.

 

And if it's real

 

sandy, you're gonna dig it

 

about eight feet away

 

from your water source

 

and you're gonna dig down

 

way below the water line,

 

the water level of

 

whatever water source you have.

 

And I have that

 

outlined here in the book.

 

We're gonna get into it in a little bit,

 

in a couple of weeks or so.

 

But that water will

 

filter through the gravel,

 

the sand, the dirt

 

and everything naturally

 

and actually clean the water out

 

and make it safe for you to drink.

 

And people's like, oh

 

dude, you cannot do that.

 

You cannot do that.

 

You're gonna get sick and die.

 

Hello.

 

90% of all the water in the United States

 

comes for water wells that people dig

 

and pump out and drink.

 

90%, it could be a little less than 90,

 

could be more than 90.

 

I'm just throwing that number out there.

 

But I'm telling you, all the city water

 

comes from a lake or a river.

 

And all they do is just pump it out

 

and then they get all

 

the dirt and crud out of it

 

and then load it down

 

with so many chemicals

 

it's gonna give everybody cancer.

 

And then half of these

 

water bottles you buy

 

from the store are just the tap water

 

that you just could have

 

bought it from the city

 

for cheaper than the tap water bottle,

 

I mean from the water bottle.

 

And yeah, people are so ignorant,

 

it is beyond belief how

 

ignorant people can be.

 

Like they don't know.

 

And so they get on to me saying,

 

you can't drink water that way.

 

I'm like, dude, they've been doing this

 

since before Jesus.

 

I mean Abraham and Jacob and Isaac,

 

all these guys, they dug

 

wells and they dug wells.

 

Jacob's whale, I mean, really?

 

All these wells were dug into the dirt

 

and they drank the water

 

that seeped into the hole.

 

That's what a whale is.

 

And it's clean.

 

It filtrates through all

 

the sand and all the dirt

 

and it gets out all the

 

bacteria and all the nasty.

 

And it actually tastes very good

 

and it has plenty of minerals in it

 

and it's better for you

 

than any of this garbage

 

that you get at the store.

 

And water wells are actually very good.

 

But anyway, getting

 

into the gypsy wells,

 

he was taking these

 

samples, sending them off

 

and when he got his lab results back,

 

it became that the one whale that I knew

 

would probably have just a

 

little bit of E. coli in there

 

had zero traces and

 

that was the coyote whale.

 

And I was like, this is crazy.

 

And I've been drinking

 

like that all my life.

 

Like I'd go camping

 

and I would dig a hole

 

right next to the river or a

 

hole right next to the creek

 

and I'd dig down about three feet,

 

something like that.

 

Sorry, filling up with water.

 

And you let it sit

 

and when you let it sit,

 

all the floaties and all the turbidity

 

is going to drop in the

 

sediment, it's gonna drop.

 

And you're gonna have clear water.

 

I mean crystal clear water.

 

And you can drink that

 

water straight out of that hole

 

and it will not get you sick.

 

If it does get you sick,

 

then you did right where

 

somebody peed or somebody pooed or

 

something like that.

 

But even in that case, I don't think so

 

because you dug it up and

 

ridged it, all the dirt.

 

But another aspect of

 

water is gonna be rain water

 

that is gonna be safe to drink.

 

Rain water is another

 

thing that a lot of people

 

argue with me about that you

 

cannot drink the rain water

 

man, they got chem trails

 

man and we're all gonna die.

 

I'm like, dude, really?

 

If they have forever chemicals, that's

 

what they keep telling

 

me, they're like, you

 

got forever chemicals

 

in the rain water man.

 

If forever chemicals

 

were in the rain water

 

then every drop of water you ever drink on the planet Earth

 

and then every drop

 

would be contaminated.

 

on the planet earth would be considered contaminated, I mean, think about it.

 

I mean, think about it.

 

What refreshes the water?

 

What refreshes the water?

 

You got the snow, which is water.

 

You got the snow, which is water.

 

You got mostly water

 

comes from the oceans

 

and then evaporates out of the oceans.

 

and then evaporates out of the oceans.

 

It flies over to wherever it's gonna do

 

and then it dumps in the form of rain.

 

And then you got the

 

rain, they got floods,

 

you got the runoff, everything, all the nasty

 

you got the runoff, everything, all the nasty

 

and the water and

 

everything goes into the water

 

and goes right back out into the ocean.

 

And then it's just a

 

And then it's just a

 

big old recycle thing

 

and it just constantly recycles.

 

So rain water is safe to drink.

 

You do not have to boil the rain water.

 

It's gonna have less to

 

no biological contaminants,

 

I mean, not chemical but

 

biological contaminants

 

in the water in the water.

 

but biological contaminants

 

It's safe to drink.

 

I've been on camping trips several times

 

I've been on camping trips several times

 

where rain water was the

 

only water we had to drink

 

and I've never been

 

sick, I haven't gotten sick

 

and I don't have cancer yet.

 

cancer yet, nah, we'll see.

 

No, let's see.

 

God willing, I don't.

 

God willing, I don't, but

 

rain water does not have

 

But rain water does not have the

 

biological contaminants

 

that groundwater has.

 

The big difference between

 

rain water and groundwater

 

is that rain water tastes different.

 

Water tastes different from

 

water from the stream or lakes

 

because it evaporates

 

out and then it leaves

 

all the minerals behind.

 

So it's kind of like distilling,

 

you're doing a

 

you're doing a

 

distillation, distillation

 

or whatever you wanna call it,

 

I forget how you pronounce these words,

 

but you're distilling it.

 

You're boiling the water out,

 

all the steam goes through a tube

 

all the steam goes through a

 

tube and then it gets cooled

 

and then it gets cooled and then it

 

returns back into water

 

and then drips into another container

 

and then drips into another container

 

and it leaves all the chemical

 

contaminants in one pot

 

contaminants in one pot

 

or the salt from salt water in one pot

 

or the salt from salt water in one pot

 

and then either way,

 

that's how you can actually

 

that's how you can

 

actually make drinkable water

 

make drinkable water by doing that

 

by doing that.

 

and that's what they

 

That's what they have, distilled water.

 

That's what distilled water is,

 

is they just boil nasty water in one pot

 

and they collect a clean

 

100% clean water in another.

 

And you can make it,

 

And you can make it, they got,

 

there's a, actually I've seen on Temu,

 

that you could buy a distiller

 

for like a hundred

 

bucks, couple hundred bucks

 

and you can set that up in your kitchen

 

to distill water

 

to distill water and

 

and you could distill

 

water if there was an event

 

if there was an event that happened,

 

that happened, a

 

hurricane storm, natural disaster,

 

something like that.

 

You had access to the water,

 

but you didn't have

 

access to make it clean,

 

which everybody does if

 

you have a way to boil it.

 

you have a way to boil it,

 

but let's say you got seawater

 

But let's say you got seawater

 

and that's the only water you got.

 

and that's the only water you got,

 

you can fill that puppy up

 

You can fill that puppy up

 

and you can go ahead

 

and distill that water

 

and it distills the water

 

and it leaves the salt in the can

 

and it allows you to

 

and it allows you to

 

collect the fresh water out of it.

 

and then you can take the

 

And then you can take the

 

salt and you put the salt up

 

and use the salt for

 

and you use the salt

 

for something else later.

 

But, you know, getting back to the water

 

and getting back to

 

and getting back to

 

the nasties of the water,

 

the reason why we boil the water

 

and I've harped on boiling your water

 

ever since I started this book,

 

ever since I started this podcast,

 

anytime I talk about water,

 

water, boil your water,

 

boil your water, boil your

 

water, boil your water.

 

And the reason why is

 

because that's the easiest,

 

it's the most surefire way to make sure

 

that you are not

 

getting any kind of chemical,

 

or I mean not chemical,

 

but biological contaminants.

 

Now, now that I said that,

 

you're boiling your water,

 

boiling your water is not gonna rid you

 

of any kind of your

 

chemical contaminants.

 

and anybody that'll tell you otherwise,

 

And anybody that I'll tell you otherwise,

 

and anybody that'll tell you otherwise,

 

you know, other than

 

being distilled is wrong.

 

So, now as mentioned in the gear section,

 

filtering and purifying water are

 

different processes.

 

And that some things that people get,

 

they use interchangeably, I believe.

 

And, you know, filtering your water

 

removes all the sediment.

 

It takes, it gets rid of

 

all the grit and the grime

 

and all the tadpoles

 

and bugs and, you know,

 

sometimes that ain't

 

bad, protein's good for you,

 

but, you know, purifying

 

your water makes the water safe

 

by removing the biological pathogens

 

and all the chemical contaminants.

 

So, all right, now let's break that down

 

because I just said

 

that boiling your water

 

is not gonna get rid of

 

the chemical contaminants,

 

and it's not.

 

What they're talking about,

 

or what I'm talking

 

about here in this book

 

is whenever you're using a water filter,

 

which we're gonna get to later on

 

in the coming weeks,

 

but if you're using a

 

commercial water filter,

 

it will remove some of

 

the chemical contaminants,

 

if not all of them.

 

And those chemical

 

contaminants are, you know,

 

it could be the near

 

forever chemicals or gas or,

 

you know, fertilizer,

 

you know, heavy metals

 

and, you know, stuff like

 

that, it'll take it out.

 

But chemical contaminants are different

 

from biological pathogens

 

and that chemicals

 

are present in the water

 

due from runoff and flooding.

 

So, for example, a farmer sprays his

 

crops for pesticides

 

and then the rain washes

 

the pesticides off the crops.

 

The water collects and runs into a stream

 

and in that stream is

 

transported to the rivers

 

and so forth.

 

Chemical contaminants,

 

they are more challenging

 

to eliminate than biological.

 

So, like, the only way

 

you're gonna be able to do that

 

is to distill your water

 

to get rid of all the

 

chemical contaminants.

 

So, let's talk about boiling the water.

 

I just did a video with a

 

stove on my YouTube channel.

 

So, if you're watching

 

this on YouTube, you know,

 

right here, I'll put a

 

link up in the description

 

of the video.

 

Also, I'll put it in the

 

description of the video

 

on the podcasting

 

platforms too in the notes.

 

But, you know, if

 

you're boiling your water

 

at different altitudes, water boils

 

differently, all right?

 

And this guy was

 

like, "Sure, come up here

 

and do it for 9,000 feet

 

and you'll never get that water bullet."

 

Well, I've never been to 9,000 feet.

 

I've been to 5,500 feet, you know,

 

camping and stuff like that.

 

But, you know, the best way to ensure

 

that you've reached a temperature

 

that will kill all the

 

biological contaminants

 

is to bring your water to a bowl

 

at 211.9 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

That's 99.97 degrees Celsius, you know?

 

So, between sea level

 

and 6,500 feet elevation,

 

that temperature is

 

212 degrees, all right?

 

To bring your water to a bowl.

 

And you can boil your

 

water for at least one minute

 

and everything's done.

 

And the reason why is

 

because you know the water boils

 

at 212, right?

 

All biological

 

contaminants are killed at 165.

 

So, that's like going to a restaurant

 

and all your food is

 

cooked to a certain temperature.

 

Your chicken is cooked to 165, 170.

 

Your beef is cooked to 155.

 

Your pork is cooked to 155.

 

Hamburger meat is cooked to 165.

 

Fish and frogs and alligators cook to 145

 

to kill certain biological contaminants

 

that's inside those, that food.

 

That's why we cook our

 

food is so we don't get sick

 

from biological

 

contaminants, or pathogens.

 

And so, once you're above

 

6,500 feet in elevation,

 

you wanna boil your water

 

because the boiling

 

temperature goes down.

 

So, once you get above a certain height,

 

which is 6,500 feet and go up or higher,

 

you know, you're probably gonna end up

 

using propane stoves

 

or anything like that.

 

You're going to boil your water for at

 

least three minutes.

 

So, to be safe, no

 

matter what your elevation is,

 

boil your water for

 

three to four minutes,

 

something like that.

 

And that way you can make

 

sure that there is no chemical,

 

I mean, biological contaminants.

 

There's still gonna be chemicals

 

if there's any chemicals in that water.

 

You're still gonna have

 

the chemicals in there

 

if you boil it.

 

All right, so, boiling your water

 

will not remove chemical contaminants.

 

Some will evaporate out,

 

but the majority will not.

 

So, to remove them, you

 

have to distill the water.

 

This process involves

 

bringing the water to a boil,

 

capturing the steam, and

 

collecting the condensation

 

as it cools and turns back into water.

 

Then that's what we just talked about.

 

So, Corporal's Corner did a

 

video a while back on YouTube

 

that it takes 45 minutes for freshly

 

boiled water to cool.

 

But it is possible, and he showed that.

 

I demonstrated it in this book, talked

 

about it in this book,

 

but he also demonstrated

 

it in video that, you know,

 

it takes 45 minutes for

 

freshly boiled water to cool.

 

However, you can cut that time in half

 

by taking the water out off of the fire

 

and putting it back into the water source

 

where you collected the water.

 

Being careful not to

 

knock it over or overfill,

 

you know, letting it

 

cross-contaminate again.

 

But you can cut that time in half.

 

And so, hey, what's 20 some odd minutes?

 

You know, 20 minutes for it to be as cold

 

as what you got it out of?

 

That's pretty good.

 

So, when boiling your water

 

straight out of the river lake

 

and not, you're not

 

filtering it or anything like that,

 

you're boiling that water.

 

A lot of people

 

complain of it tasting nasty.

 

(laughs)

 

They're like, oh my

 

God, this tastes horrible.

 

You know, to combat

 

that, you just get you one

 

of those little pack,

 

drink packets of crystallite

 

or something like

 

that and dump it in there

 

and you're good to go and

 

it'll change the flavor.

 

Now, I'll use those

 

routinely with filtered water

 

because when you get out there,

 

it gets to you drinking

 

water, water, water, water

 

because that's all I drink anyway.

 

And every once in a while, I want

 

something to really,

 

you know, sweeten things

 

up, something to be different,

 

you know, but I got to watch out

 

because you know, the lemonade packets,

 

when you get out there,

 

they give me a digestion.

 

And once I get an indigestion,

 

as I'm with, I'm miserable.

 

So, but that's it on that.

 

But you know, one of the

 

most important aspects of,

 

since I got this started, this podcast,

 

is since I started, you know,

 

the first page of this book,

 

you know, one of the most important

 

things to have with you

 

besides your trusty but not rusty knife

 

is a metal container.

 

If you go into the woods

 

without a metal container

 

and you get stranded in the woods,

 

it's going to make your stay miserable

 

because you're going to have to go

 

through different ways

 

to prepare your water, not formulate,

 

but to render your water safe to drink.

 

And you know, there

 

are ways you could do it.

 

You can burn this, you

 

can burn a bowl out of a log

 

and bowl rocks and throw it in there.

 

You could do all these different things,

 

but just bring a metal container with you

 

and you don't have to worry about it.

 

You know, the basis of this

 

book is not like survival.

 

It does cover some of the

 

survival aspects, granted.

 

It covers some of the bases and you know,

 

but the majority of it

 

is bushcraft camping.

 

You're going camping.

 

And you know, so a lot of the stuff

 

you're bringing with you,

 

you're primitive camping in the woods.

 

You've got your bag,

 

your backpack filled up

 

and you're headed out.

 

You're going to a

 

certain place in the woods

 

and you're going to

 

camp out for several days,

 

a week, a couple of weeks, whatever,

 

whatever floats your boat.

 

You know, at that point,

 

once you get out there

 

for that long and you start,

 

you know, your stuff, your gear,

 

your items that you brought with you

 

is going to start to deplete, you know,

 

especially the food and stuff like that.

 

So you're going to be practicing

 

bushcraft, you know,

 

you're going to start,

 

and I routinely do it all the time.

 

I'll bring my backpack.

 

I'll have, you know, my shelter.

 

I'll have my bedding, stuff like that.

 

Then I'll have my cooking in my pots.

 

I'll have a couple of changes of clothes.

 

And then, you know, a

 

couple of days worth of food.

 

And after that, I'm doing my own food,

 

but I make everything that

 

I want for my camping trip

 

out there so I'm

 

practicing the bushcraft.

 

So that's why the book's called

 

Primitive Camping in Bushcraft,

 

because you are actually going out

 

on a primitive camping trip,

 

but you're going to

 

end up doing bushcraft.

 

And, you know, not so much the survival,

 

but you need to know

 

some of the survival aspects

 

in order to do the others.

 

So it's kind of like layers, you know.

 

First, you got this

 

layer right here, you know,

 

water, shelter, fire.

 

Those three things right

 

there is like your first layer.

 

And then after that,

 

you got food collection,

 

and, you know, tools

 

and comfort and stuff,

 

and then trying to

 

make traps and, you know,

 

stuff like that.

 

And everything is, everything is layered

 

on top of each other.

 

So metal containers are something

 

that are extremely

 

important to have with you

 

when you're in the woods, because it

 

makes your life easier.

 

It really does.

 

I don't want to go out

 

into the woods and suffer.

 

I want to go out to the woods and enjoy

 

why I went out into the woods.

 

And that's to read my Bible

 

and to enjoy God's great creation.

 

And, I mean, you know, it's evident

 

that he's everywhere and everything.

 

So one of the aspects after

 

you have a metal container

 

is that you could boil water,

 

and then you could store that water,

 

and then keep boiling

 

it, storing it, boiling it,

 

storing it.

 

So let's talk about water storage.

 

You know, water

 

collection bags are readily,

 

readily, is that even a word?

 

Readably.

 

(laughs)

 

But readily available, you know.

 

We got a readily available.

 

And you can get them off Amazon.

 

You can get some water

 

collection stuff at Walmart.

 

Now, there is a brand out there.

 

Colligan, Culligan,

 

Culligan, C-O-L-L-E-G-A-N,

 

or something like that.

 

They're a camping brand.

 

And I bought a couple of them one time.

 

And they were collapsible water jugs or

 

something like that.

 

And dude, I washed them

 

out, I rinsed them out.

 

And I filled them up with water,

 

and I put it in my boat,

 

and we headed to the campsite.

 

And if I have a

 

conveyance going somewhere,

 

I'm gonna bring as

 

much stuff up as I can,

 

because I don't feel like

 

doing it when I'm out there.

 

But you know, I filled up

 

this jug, and I got out there.

 

And I'm telling you,

 

that water tasted horrible.

 

It tasted just like that jug.

 

It tasted like that plastic nasty.

 

And I was just like,

 

"Golly, get this away from me."

 

But water is gonna taste like something.

 

If you had something in a jug before,

 

it's gonna taste like it.

 

So these water storage bags right here,

 

they got them ones on

 

Amazon you can order,

 

or you can go down to Popeye's

 

or some of these fast

 

food restaurants to go.

 

And you can get a gallon bag

 

of your teas or your lemonades

 

or blah, blah, blah,

 

whatever drinks that they serve.

 

And you can reuse these bags.

 

And I do the Popeye's bags.

 

I'll get a gallon of the

 

sweet tea or unsweet tea.

 

And I will take those

 

bags with me into the woods.

 

And they are perfect, reservoir bags.

 

They're perfect for

 

putting, storing water in.

 

And so that's something

 

that you would throw away,

 

but you could reuse.

 

And it's great to reuse things.

 

And I really like reusing things.

 

One, you're cutting out on waste.

 

Two, you're making

 

something out of something

 

that would have been garbage anyway.

 

But so water storage is important

 

because you really wanna be

 

able to have enough water to,

 

you don't have to have boiled or filtered

 

or clean water to cook.

 

You can use nasty water

 

straight out of the river

 

and cook with it.

 

Because you're gonna

 

boil that water anyway

 

if you're cooking.

 

But it's nice to have stored water.

 

That way you can just have some,

 

a plenty of water to drink.

 

And I usually take one

 

of these bags with me

 

and I'll use a grill, a

 

GeoPress wherever I'm going.

 

And then whenever I get

 

to where I'm going in camp,

 

I'll fill that water

 

bag up with it either.

 

I'll use my grill to fill it up

 

or I'll boil the water

 

and store it that way.

 

But we'll get into the grill GeoPress.

 

(laughs)

 

That's the most amazing

 

water filter there is.

 

And we'll go, we got other aspects,

 

other things to talk about here too.

 

But one of the last

 

things I wanna talk about

 

and this just one of the little side

 

notes here in the book

 

is water wicking or wicking your water.

 

And wicking the water

 

is, you got this cup

 

and it's full of your dirty water.

 

You're gonna put a bandana

 

or some kind of cotton cloth

 

in the water and you're gonna lay it over

 

and you're gonna have

 

another container down here

 

and it's gonna siphon

 

that water out of here

 

all the way down and fill this jug up.

 

Well, it's still gonna

 

have the nasty biological

 

contaminants in there.

 

This water is not

 

gonna be clean to drink.

 

You still have to

 

actually boil that water.

 

All right, so that's

 

how you wick your water.

 

You can wick water

 

from all kinds of things

 

and it'll be clean

 

looking, it'll be clear,

 

but it will still not be safe.

 

So next we're gonna get

 

into pre-filter in our water

 

and we're gonna use

 

several ways to do that.

 

Then we're gonna get into

 

the chemical disinfectant

 

and move along to

 

other water filtration sources.

 

So other ways to filtrate

 

your water in the grade outdoors.

 

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