Starting Bushcraft #4 ....Survival Water Skills

A quick guide to an expansive subject. How to carry, find and make safe to drink water in the field. Ideal information for the bushcrafter, outdoorsman, prepper or survivalist. I look at improvised methods, as well as products from Life Saver & the Sawyer Mini Filters as viable options for anyone venturing outdoors.

[@PingHansen]

Point worth considering: the drinking cap on the bottle was not pasteurized, so you could get ingest live pathogens from that.

[@thomasmusso1147]

👍😊 .. nice Posting .. simple and to the point .. thanks. Having served in the Military in Southern Africa and experienced serious thirst, water has a special place in my heart 😊.

[@scruff_uk]

Cracking video Neil. Superb information in there and some excellent little nuggets!

[@windy1965]

Excellent advice on a very important subject. Nice one Neil. Take care & all the best, Neil G.

[@BushCraftBums]

Great video and overview! Thanks for sharing and have a blessed one

[@pnyarrow]

Thank you for a great set of well presented information. Stay safe. ATB. Nigel

[@martinoutdoors6941]

Well explained as always. 👍

[@badhat3051]

great information Neal, Over here we call that little hole that you wallowed out a gypsey well or a Coyote well. Over here many backcountry water sources have been polluted with all sorts of nasty stuff. Mercury, and other heavy metals. Not sure that any filter can get that out

[@Andy-walkaboutnutty]

Good video Neil, I do roundabout the same which is nice to see but I have these days 2 nalgene bottles, 1 clear plastic and 1 steel. A Millbank and a mini Sawyer. Even the purification tablets are oasis, so I enjoyed the film even more because I do roundabout the same. :-)

[@cagedraptor]

a lot of really good info. packed into your video. Congrats on a wonderful and informative video

[@Andy-1968]

A really interesting & informative video once again Neil 🙂 cheers, look after yourself

[@michaelmes1182]

Thanks Niel 👍

[@simonparker9057]

Sound info as usual - hope you are recovering well!

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Good video as usual Neil. Thank you.

[@johnwalker91]

Hi Neil great video very informative loved the plastic bottle tip very sexy stay safe

[@lukewardle3515]

Good sensible info. I really like the sawyer filter and tend to use it as my main method, although not as romantic as a boiling billy can over an open fire it does remove heavy metals and chemical contaminants better. Also worth mentioning is you need to protect your filter system from freezing temps as water expansion can damage the filters.

[@festadams9896]

HI Luke, the Sawyer will not remove heavy metals and chemical contaminants but you can add a Platypus carbon filter to your Sawyer with a small piece of tubing from a hydration bladder. I hope this info keeps you safe buddy. The sawyer is my current filtration of choice and is an awesome piece of kit though.

[@lukewardle3515]

Did not know that. Thanks for the info I'll look into the platypus.

[@festadams9896]

www.freezeproshop.com/platypus-gravityworks-carbon-element?country=GB&currency=GBP&GoogleShopping&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkMDiBRDNARIsACKP1FGMU_tNO9TQz8tIVJafx9iy8WPnEA5PQ2QimDASXo7XMgOCclwPoBcaAshtEALw_wcB Not sure if this link will work but the Item is called Platypus GravityWorks carbon element.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

Great video mate, good information too.

[@greencraft4783]

Cheers Rob, appreciate that. I am trying to get it right and it not be the same old blurb repeated yet again!

[@MrGraemeb2022]

When you run out of water, the bottom falls out of your world. When you drink untreated water, the world falls out of your bottom.

[@wildbrigante9596]

Sexy video Neil 😉 as usual plenty of great info. Would you advise the Sawyer or the Lifesaver?

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

The Lifesaver bottle pump is way too bulky and is overpriced, the Sawyer and any similar is a closed filtration system and will hold water inside, even after syringing, a purifying pump like Katadyn and similar is small, lightweight and field strippable for cleaning and drying out, and the filter is around 0.2/0.1 microns, I've also been using a filter pump called the Soldier, I've used it to filter well over 40 litres of water from various sources with zero after effects and it's excellent, small, light, strippable and at around 20-25 pounds it's very affordable for every pocket, oh and I always carry a Millbank bag and puritabs. Boiling water in a plastic bottle is NOT a good idea, heated plastic leeches poisons into the water👌

[@greencraft4783]

Thanks for that. Have you a link for the soldier filter? That lifesaver is bulky, but the new liberty model seems smaller (as mentioned). I stayed at the end of the video that boiling water in a plastic is an emergency measure, as many people are not aware of the hazards. Thanks for your input my friend.

[@kobrakkai]

imagine trusting some cheap piece of crap plastic made in china knock off to protect you from microscopic bacteria and viruses...

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

@@kobrakkai And obviously, by your obnoxious and disdainful comment, you are the expert, you stick with what you think you know and I will stick to what I have actually tested out in the Welsh mountains and all over Dartmoor, as has several friends, and we know it work's , perfectly, thank you China.

[@kobrakkai]

@@neanderthaloutdoors9202 I never claimed to be an expert, just to have more sense than you. I could use my sock as a filter up the mountians in the highlands and be perfectly fine too, and it's not because my sock has a chinese filter in it. Test it at a stagnant pond and let me know how you get on, since you trust your wonder china filter so much.

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

@@greencraft4783 Ebay bud, average £20 give or take, yes there probably from China but I've used mine as has friends on many occasions using water from streams and lakes absolutely no problem's, friends have bought them after using my mine, replaceable ceramic filters that have silver ions inside and filters up to 2000 litres.