The Prepper's Water Survival Guide: Harvest, Treat, and Store Your Most Vital Resource

very useful knowledge to have in a Pinch

I have looked at several books. This is the best one that I found. I read through it just to see if it's of any value. Liked it. Now, I need to reread it slower and take notes. There were a few places that were for conservation but I didn't feel would Falk under prepping.

Maybe prepper books can be sorted into those that are disappointing and those that are pretty good. I think at first this one seemed like one of the disappointing ones, but now that I've read more of it, I'd have to say it's worthwhile. It's kind of like, if the author titled a section "Lakes and Ponds," then she'd certainly write, "You can get water from lakes and ponds." And you'd want to say, "Ok! Wow, you thought of that, too?" Or like, she'd almost write that you should be sure to drink 8-10 full, tall glasses of pure water a day, and to drink whenever you feel thirst. One thing was, she wrote in a couple places that you shouldn't drink saltwater, and I thought it was a little dumb, that she was telling us what everybody knows. But then I thought, maybe it's really better in a way, after all, to mention it like that. You know, a smarter way to write on it, seems to me, might have been just to find out very specifically what happens to you when you drink saltwater, and tell us that. You know, what kind of symptoms and discomfort have people suffered from it, and how much drinking saltwater does it take to kill you. And then the author blueprint for us a couple practical ways to desalinate water. Anyway, after reading the book more, I found there's a lot of good stuff in it that I'd bet that you'd think is pretty interesting, and you'd want to underline. You may not feel that all of it is something you think applies to you or something you want to use, but that's not saying much. Also, the book could give you a few more ideas of things to save up a few of. You might have some of the same complaints I have about the book, but you also might feel that in a lot of ways, it straightened you out about water. She may not have nailed down everything you're concerned about, but there's stuff in here that could really help you.

I bought this book as part of a gift of two books about water harvesting and storage for prepper’s, for my father. My dad loves reading prepper’s guides and information. I picked this one for him because it targeted something he was really interested in: water. This book has so much information. It begins with a great introduction, explaining the importance of water and why we need to be so careful with it. The book contains information about why everyone needs to have an idea of a safe water supply, including non-preppers. It provides incidences in which safe water was scarce for a time. It convinced me to continue reading the book, even as a non-prepper myself! It outlines ways of storing water safely (did you know milk jugs are not a good option?) as well as harvesting the water. Most interesting to me were the chapters on purifying water and finding emergency sources of water. I found it completely fascinating and I learned so much! I highly recommend this book to anyone, especially if they are preppers or if they just find water information such as this interesting. I thought it was so useful and I feel a little better knowing about how to collect, store, and purify water!

I thought this book was well written and comprehensive. It have facts and reasons and did not fill the reader with fear, but with truth and a game plan. It's not a crazy thing to plan for disaster. Not even an apocalypse, but the chance that over the course of one's life, there could be a problem with having access to clean water. I already keep two gallons of water on hand, but I need to do plan for at least a gallon a day for at least two weeks. Luther shows the reader how to accomplish this without breaking the bank. The biggest thing I took from Luther's book is to be prepared as use any resource availabe accordingly. Drinking water is obviously a big deal, buthe without water on hand for washing and sanitizing, a variety of issues can still arise, including death. Not to end on a down note, there are things in this book anyone can use daily. If you travel, make sure you have plenty of water on hand (should be obvious, but...) and one can make their own homemade electrolyte drink in a pinch! No need for Gatorade when most people already have the proper ingredients in their home!

This is an excellent book. First, water is the most important thing to worry about. The rule of 3 for survival is: 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. The most likely shortage you will face in an emergency is water. Contaminated water is one of the most dangerous ways that disease such as cholera is transmitted. This book goes through various filtering and purification techniques. It points out the important supply of water that most people don't even think about....their hot water heater. The book is written from the point of view of individual preparation. However, if we as a nation suffer something like an EMP attack or bio-terror attack, we will have to react as a community and nation as well. Digging a latrine in an area of high rise apartments isn't a plan. My book, "One Second After...in San Diego" (fictional) addresses the reaction of the 3 million people in San Diego County led by the military. As Daisy Luther points out, we use much more water for sanitation purposes than the 1 gallon a day for drinking. In my book, the sanitation problem is solved by using saltwater and untreated water from the reservoirs. The drinking water is from hot water heater tanks and filtering water with simple backpacking filters. Water may be our most important need, but humans are our most important resources....when they work as a team.

There is a fair amount of information and some of it rather important. Overall it was good but I could not rate it higher as it did not address a social collapse scenario which is what I have been preparing for. This is a more than 3 day or even 2 week event. This book addresses water filtration from the view of a hike in the woods and filtering water from a stream to commercial home filtration systems which are fine if you have a stockpile of commercially made filters for your system. I was looking for information on creating a backup filtration system along the lines of activated charcoal, sand and pebbles. I am on well water and live near a small river. If there is no power I need to manually access water from these two sources and filter it. After reading this book I went on line and found more information on homemade filters than offered here. The book is helpful, just not as encompassing as it could be.

Recently, with all this crazy stuff happening in the world, I've gotten interested in water prepping and other survival techniques in general. As I'm sure you know clean and safe drinking water is the most important thing to have in an emergency survival situation. This book covers the dangers of being without water and gives real life stories of people who have had to go days without water. Nothing inspires like death and, with the realization that could happen to you, soon you'll want to be able to prep and safely acquire drinking water on your own. This book supplies all the information you will ever need on water prepping including, but not limited to, storing water, acquiring water, and sanitation. Luther gives important and practical advice on what to do and how to do it. Can you create something to filter water that doesn't require power? With this book you can. Invest in the future, your future, and learn about water prepping now. You never know when you'll need it.

This book shows you numerous ways to save water and stay away from dehydration, how to stay away from bacterial water supplies, water related illness, dysentery, e.coli infection, hepatitis a, cholera, typhoid, symptoms and treatments, creating a water saving plan, storing water, unsafe storage, safe storage, acquiring water from rivers, lakes, ponds, streams & creeks, water pollution, setting up a rainwater harvesting system, purifying water from different ways, making outdoor toilets, human wast management, handling garbage during an emergencys and much much more on water savings, must have for survival peoples, its a best book on treat and store your most vital resource water.

Boek had schade

This book exceeded my expectations. Lots of water related information inside and easy to read. I also appreciate the author's down to earth writing style. This was my first introduction to Daisy Luther and from this book I found her website, The Organic Prepper. I've been low-key disaster ready-ing for my whole life and recently realised that water-prepping (the most important resource) had not been high on my mind. This booked helped with that in an accessible (for lower income north American) fashion.

Awesome knowledge especially for hikers and campers.

Its a good book to have about water. Easy to read and helpful. Small so it fits in a bag if you are on a hiking trip or in the field.