Let’s talk about water in the wilderness. We’re here on a hiking trip with down trail for about two hours. Come across the stream, what you see here is nice clean drinking water. It goes to the ground several times. There are tress growing out of it, a lot of vegetation, there are some crawfish in that little hole right there. This is good drinking water
However, just hundred yards up stream, this same water, is stagnant. But as it starts flowing, the sand, sunlight helps purify it. Now there’s a couple factors that help contribute to whether our water is safe to drink or not. Are there people living up stream? That’s very important especially in these rural areas because they don’t have treated septic systems or have a septic tank. If you have people living up stream, there’s a chance that the water has polio, hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, all these are transmitted through human waste. If there’s livestock up stream, cryptosporidium and E. coli
So we’re here out in the woods, there’s nobody up stream from here. I know that, this is natural fed stream. This is perfect to drink with. What happens is the stream it goes into the ground right here and it just disappears and as it runs through the sand it purifies it. Okay. Then it comes out another 20 to 30 feet down there it just keeps on going. This is some of the best water you can find to drink, okay. This shows my faith in it. All right.
This is good water. So, we’re going to be—as we’re hiking along we’re going to be finding water that is not safe to drink, except this is not—that is good to drink. So here in a little bit we’ll show you another example of stuff that is not safe to drink, okay? All right.
Okay, we’re on our overnight hiking trip. We’re talking about finding water in the woods. This is an example of water—do not considered safe to drink. It’s sitting idle, even though we have this grass growing out of it. We have wild life tracks all in it, okay? We have coyote tracks. That’s right there is a coyote track. We have deer tracks in it. It means that wild animal have been coming up here stepping in this water.
The one thing that really concerns me is the wild dogs or coyotes. Coyotes like a roll in their feces, like to get camouflage sense. And if you’ve ever been around a coyote you know they stink. They are filthy animals. They stink really bad.
Animals had been coming up here, loft into this water, drinking on this water. Unless you have a purifier or some way to filter this water even to boil it, do not just take you r hand and drink directly from here. Okay? If some of these animals are transmitting diseases—E. coli, rabies or whatever you don’t want to take the chance of drinking something like this.
Now, let’s take stand up and take a look. Here we have a sloping hill, going down. No hands, okay? If we really needed to find water, this is where we need to go. We have a valley right there that means any rainwater would come down right there and then flow down in this layer and there should be a creek in that direction. In fact, I know there’s a creek in that direction because episode right before this one was filmed on that creek.
So, if you find water like this that’s stagnant, that not running, it’s got animal tracks in it don’t drink it unless you have filter or purifier.
Thank you.
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