Surviving the Outdoors

Safety, Heat, Water, Food, Medical, Lights, Sanitation

Water is even more important than food…

            Water is more urgent than food!  The consensus is that after three (3) days without water, the body will begin to shut down.  People will become disoriented and may exhibit poor judgment.  This alone could cause injury or much worse. As always, the young and the elderly are the most susceptible.

            I urge you in the strongest terms to store a minimum of two (2) liters per day, per person of drinking water.  Water used for personal hygiene does not need to be as pure as drinking water, but pure enough to not cause infections.  Boiling is usually enough to use for a sponge bath.  Healthy people can survive for three weeks or more without food (but please don’t try it).  If forced upon you it will be bad enough and practicing is not going to make you better at it.