Survival Tips and Tricks: All About Water

[Music] [Music] hey everybody welcome back i am jason salyer and today's topic for discussion is water water is essential for life you can't go very long at all without a good clean source of water and there's lots of different ways that we can go about acquiring that if we're talking about a wilderness situation if we're talking about on the homestead whatever it may be like for example if power goes out at my house i have a well a private well power goes out in my current state i have no way to get water into my house and that's a problem i've got a hand pump coming it's on the way just hasn't arrived yet and once it's there i'll have that next step taken care of but if you don't have that set up if you don't have your own personal well that you can have access to clean water if you're reliant upon let's say city water and that gets shut off one day or if i'm stuck out in the wilderness somewhere and i just need to find myself a drink of water there's so many different techniques and methods of purifying it filtering it boiling and all those types of things and that's the stuff i want to talk about today like for example this is the creek that runs through my property it's a pretty good sized creek and i am super super blessed and very fortunate to have a water source like this only 50 yards 60 yards from my house from my front door and you could look at this and be like oh that's a crystal clear flowing mountain stream you could probably just lap right out of that and you might be right yeah i might be able to get down there on my on my hands and knees and lap some water up like a dog but there's also a pretty high risk factor in that that i could get sick because i don't know necessarily what's going on upstream a mile upstream from here there could be a cow crapping in it right now i don't know that and i want to kind of mitigate those risks if possible and what can i do well what i've done in the past let's say when the power's gone out i've gotten buckets of water from here take it to the house and i've poured it into a berkey water filter water filtration is awesome if you've got a good one the berkeys are great for homesteading or if you're on foot carrying something as simple as this grail water filter is fantastic because i can walk up to this stream right now real time get this in the water trying to keep any big particulates out of it loosen up the cap push it down and in about a minute or less squirting out in about a minute or less i'm gonna have 24 ounces of fresh clean drinking water that i can just throw back in my backpack and be on the go again and that to me is about the most convenient thing that you could uh you could possibly do there's lots of other good filters out there um allen you could chime in here i know you liked it was it befree that's what i'm currently using catadon b free yeah catadyne b free another really really good one that we would recommend but i really like this one because bam i'm drinking fresh clean water that's not going to make me sick now let's say i don't have a water filter let's say i'm not carrying one of those what else can i do in a homestead situation i could carry a bucket of water up to the house i could put a big old pot of water on the stove top and boil it right i've got propane to generate even if electricity is out i can have fire um in a wilderness situation in a more primitive setting i can carry myself a metal canteen cup which i highly recommend there's there's a few items that that i think you should need to have in your pack if you're going away from civilization in a metal container of some sort that you can boil water in is a must-have in my opinion i don't think there's any any way around it if you don't have something that you can boil water in heading into a wilderness setting you're wrong um in a simple canteen cup like this you can build yourself a small little fire or cook it over a stove whatever it means when maybe and get it to go to a rolling boil and that's the key word right there is rolling boil do you need to boil water to make it safe to drink no you just need to heat it up to a certain temperature don't quote me but i want to say it's 160 degrees for a significant period of time whatever that may be but how do i know if the water temperature is 160 degrees or i don't know but visually i can look at it and see that water is boiling and i know that it's up to at least 212 degrees at least the sea level and i know that by the time that water cools down it boils by the time i it cools down ready to drink it's been at that temperature long enough to kill any nasties that might be in my water now when it comes to boiling water let's say uh starting a fire and getting water to a boil is a chore it's it's a kind of a big thing um and let's say my only purpose in starting a fire is to boil water a lot of people what they do is they get all their materials together they start their fire they get it going and then they put their water on there i don't do that because it wastes a lot of time and energy what i like to do is get myself just a dry base to kind of sit set it on just maybe a few sticks flat sticks to put on there and then while the water's full right there my cup of water i will start my fire around it and so immediately as soon as i start the fire as soon as i start to see flames it's already warming my water up and i'm not wasting any time or any fuel any resources to get it done as we scoop the water out of the creek you can look down in here and see there's a lot of sediment and uh i often carry more than one metal container and people ask me why and this is one case where i might use an additional container so it might look like i take a take a bandana or something for a pre-filter you know some piece of cloth and i take my clean vessel here and i can just kind of hold that put a small depression in it and you see all of the all of the floaties and particulate in there i'm just gonna do a pour to filter out the big stuff and this is a very low low-tech way of doing it you could use the edge of your t-shirt you know any any piece of equipment that you had to hand you know i generally will just drink that stuff honestly because once you've boiled it there's nothing in there it's going to hurt you but there are times when you get into the water and it's got that much green scum on the top of it you know you do want to do want to filter some of that stuff out you can see on that piece of fabric all of those particles that i just removed from the water so that looks a lot better doesn't it move this cap and i keep this thing full of uh denatured alcohol so that when i i do need to use it it's ready i get many burns out of that and you can't even really see the flame on it sometimes i don't know if you can see it on film but i can see the heat and that's how i check it to make sure that it is lit one thing with our mission essential equipment like lighters and knives i generally don't like to lay those things down so when they're in my hand being used i'll put them back down it's a good policy especially if you only have one and we'll just place that on the heat source tablets are another good thing to carry there's a lot of different water purification tablets i have in this molle carrier here a side pouch and inside of that i like to keep my iodine tablets these are coleman brand from walmart they're you know it's irrelevant to me really who who made them the uh the iodine is what's important there's a second bottle that you get with these that has a chemical that will remove some of the iodine flavor and it has the yellow cap on it and you just follow the instructions so the good thing about these is you don't have a dependence on fire you don't have any moving parts and filters can when they freeze they can crack and that point one micron opening just got a lot bigger and now all that bad stuff can come washing through so i generally when i when i set up a pack i like to have three methods to take care of water i like to be able to boil the water i like to be able to chemically treat the water and i like to be able to filter the water so i will have whatever situation i'm in i will have something that's appropriate to that situation and ultimately with tablets they will run out whereas a metal container so long as you can make fire you can purify water indefinitely now the next thing that i want to talk about is if what if you don't have a filter water filter what if you don't have a cotton cloth to use as a pre-filter what if you don't have a metal container what if you can't even really get a fire started what if you got nothing what can we do to make this water safe to drink and around here there's a couple different options option one i can find a stream like this and i can follow it until i find a small little tributary that runs into it and then i can follow that up stream until it gets to nothing and i find the spot where it's basically coming out of the ground if i can find that i almost guarantee 100 that it's gonna be safe to drink but that takes time that takes energy that takes effort and it requires me to cover a lot of ground what i can do is dig myself a seep well my seat well is not a complicated thing it's basically essentially a hole that i'm digging in the ground and allowing the water to seep into that reservoir that i've created and using all the sand and dirt and sediment around to filter that water out and that's essentially all i'm doing is creating a spring i'm creating a spring head basically when i do that so i'll show you how we do that i'm going to look for a spot that's going to be as easy to dig as possible the problem with where we live is that there's rocks and roots and everything everywhere but i'm looking over here on the other side of the cake and i see kind of a flat spot that looks a little bit sandier and that's going to be good for the filtration anyway so i'm going to head over there and find a good spot to dig the seat well so when i look for a spot to dig a seat well i'm going to dig about a step a few feet away from the water source that i'm going to be getting my water from that way it's just got plenty of plenty of dirt plenty of sediment soil to go through before it gets to me this spot right here looks pretty good couple of things in the way there's a good chance i'm gonna run into a boulder here but that's okay we'll work around it if we have to but i'm gonna dig down below the level of the water and at first there might not be any water in there but if you wait and you're patient you'll see that water slowly start to seep in hence the name seep well but right about here is about a step away from the um from the creek i'll start digging my hole oh so you don't have to use a shovel for something like this you don't have to use an e-tool you can use your hands your little paws you can use a digging stick but it would take exponentially longer i would say to dig a hole this size with just my bare hands i mean you're looking at probably an hour with a digging stick you might speed that up a little bit but not much but i've been digging for two minutes maybe and i've got a substantial sized hole here that's probably probably level with the water there with the creek now but i'm gonna go even a little bit further because i can one thing i'm always careful to do with these guys especially on youtube is give absolutes times yeah data because they'll be out there fact checking it yeah actually actually insulatory is not a word actually webster does not recognize inflatory so this is probably deep enough but i'm going to go just a little bit more because when i dig in here with either my hands or a cup or whatever container i can fashion um i don't want to disrupt the bottom and then get my water all cloudy um because what i'm going to do after i get this hole done is i'm going to let it rest i'm going to let it sit and i'm going to let it fill up with water and once it's full full of water i might come in here with either if i had a cup if i don't have a cup i probably wouldn't do that but if i had a cup i'd come in here and i would just about empty my seep oil out and then let it filter again because all this stuff that i'm doing digging around here i might be getting some i don't know beaver poop or something pushed down in there from all my rummaging around here so if i emptied out with my cup and then let it re-filter i'm mitigating some of that some of that contaminants that might be in there so i'll just now i'm just after i've got it deep enough i'm just going to clean it up around the hole you can line this thing with rocks if you wanted to and all that probably not going to do that get it cleaned out and then i'll pack the sides i like to pack the sides because all of this loose dirt around the edge of my hole um if i if i'm in there digging around and whatnot if i'm in there getting my water that loose dirt will fall down in the water and then disrupt it and get it all sedimentary again and get nasty so i'll clean that with my hand sedimentary is not a word sediment is definitely a word and i'll pack the sides make it tidy and neat so hopefully nothing falls in get the rims packed down tight just like a well doesn't have to be perfect but you know just every little step you take to make it better is one less chance of me getting sick from drinking this water and now you can see you can literally see the water flowing into this hole so you can see water flowing in flowing into our seep well here here and pretty much all all around it and all this sandy clay sediment soil is filtering that water out and even if there's a you know a dead cow laying in the stream uh half a mile up none of that nastiness is going to get to me because of this wall of sediment here that's filtering my water so we'll just let the hole fill up [Music] and then we'll get ourselves a drink of water so we've given it about 20 minutes or so i'm a little bit impatient so i'm going to dig in but i've let most of the sediment kind of settle down to the bottom and the and my well has filled up so if you've got a cup you can dip this in there very gently but be careful just not to disturb the bottom and get that sediment all stirred back up again if you don't have a cup you just dip your hand in there and do the same thing but again it makes kind of a mess of it and makes it a little bit swampy so just got to be careful with it another method if you're around river cane or bamboo or any hollow plant that's non-toxic is use a make yourself a straw oh yeah oh we forgot anything here i don't think i've got anything that grows here that we could use maybe some of these these stems but first first go first um pull off of my well here you can see how sedimentary that is a little bit nasty so what i would typically want to do is take this cup empty my well and do let it do it again and it filters through and it'll get a little bit clearer the second go-around but that first first go through is going to be a little bit nasty but still i could drink this even though it's going to taste like mud i can rest assured at least be fairly confident that there's not going to be anything in the water that's going to make me sick it tastes like that kind of like clay soil you know but it's not terrible um and it will get you through if you've got nothing else your choices are either drink the water or die of dehydration you're going to drink the water and that could be said for really any source of water with the exception of probably salt water so drink the water and hopefully you'll get out of that nasty situation before uh before you succumb to the dehydration all right guys thanks for watching we'll see you next time make sure you hit that thumbs up you

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Length: 19min 24sec (1164 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 08 2021