Survival Science Means Filtering Water In The Wild: Clear & Natural Doesn’t Mean "Safe"

When you’re talking about survival, water is one of the first priorities. People can go weeks without food, but only a few days without water.

That’s why the conversation about whether or not to filter water in the wild matters.

This isn’t a debate about opinions. It's not even a debate.

It’s about the science of survival.

Take a look at this video below.

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If you drink the wrong water in the wrong situation, you can get sick, and if you’re already cold, injured, or starving, that sickness can kill you.

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There’s a dangerous idea floating around that water from a moving stream, creek, or spring or melting glacier water is automatically safe to drink. It’s not.

Clear water to your eyes doesn’t mean clean water to your body.

Pathogens are invisible and don’t care about your pride.

It's not cool or masculine or strong to drink unfiltered water in the wild. It's not a smart. It's f*cking stupid af. Don't do it.

People have died from drinking "clean" “natural” water that looked pristine!

History and modern lab results both prove this.

Survival is about stacking the odds in your favor. Filtering or boiling water isn’t weakness, it’s one of the most basic survival skills you can learn.

To dismiss it is reckless and ignorant. If you think otherwise, test the water yourself, send it to a lab, or put it under a microscope. You’ll see exactly what I’m talking about.

The recent advent of cheap internet cheap smart phones and idiots just smart enough to use their phones and logon to the internet but not smart enough to learn about pathogens and the science of survival, have flooded the internet with their scientifically illiterate opinions and toxic bravado. Morons that think it's cool and fun to show themselves drinking supposedly clean water to millions of people online. It's irresponsible and stupid and will result in eventually someone getting sick and if something isn't done about it someone will likely die from drinking water they thought was safe to drink because some idiot thought it was cool to get a bunch of views on TikTok and Youtube.

This post is for those idiot internet trolls arguing against filtering or boiling or purifying water in the wild, calling it weak and stupid and mocking those who follow proper BASIC survival skills and knowledge rules.

There's a reason filters exist!

Basic survival skills teach to at the very least boil water from streams or other natural water sources before drinking.

Anything less than filtering or boiling is unsafe and arguably stupid. At the very least it's foolishly playing Russian Roulette with deadly pathogens.

Let me be clear.

I'm here to teach people the facts about off grid living and survival based on current science and technology. That include medical science and proven science about microbes and pathogens that can make you sick if you ingest them.

This is not a joke. It's deadly serious. It's not fearmongering when it's the facts based on hundreds of years of science and experience and historical evidence.

I back everything I publish with scientific facts and historical evidence. If I'm talking about survival facts I don't say it unless the science backs it up.

Your argument against fact-based evidence-based science isn't the flex you think it is! (Thank you to Blcksmth for that line. I modified it a little for my use here.)

It doesn't matter what "my thoughts" are about it. It doesn't matter what you opinion is. It doesn't matter what your anecdotal experience is. It matters what the scientific facts say.

Pick a stream, lake, creek, spring or glacier.

Go ahead an scoop up a cup full of that water in a sterile water sample container.

Now...Take it to a lab that specializes in study and testing water for biological pathogens and have it tested for harmful microbes.

Then let me know the results here. No, I'm not gonna pay your fees...you speak out against the science that's already done? You ignore historical evidence. You deny the facts. If you talk shit, then put your money where your mouth is drinking from!

Go test that water. Show the results publicly. It will surprise you. Go buy yourself a microscope.

Go to the stream or creek, take a water sample and look at it under the microscope.

You will NEVER drink unfiltered water again.

People are talking about it being safe to drink water direct from streams and creeks and glaciers. It's not.

Viruses don't care what you believe. Pathogens don't care about your anecdotal "evidence" or experience in the wild. Microbes don't care about our TikTok or YouTube videos. Bacteria don't care about your pride.

I don't care if that offends you. You're wrong.

If you say anything like "moving water is safe to drink" or "as long as it's clear and clean it's safe".

YOU ARE WRONG!

You're wrong and someone needs to tell you you're wrong.

It's not weak to admit you're wrong.

It's weak to refuse to admit you're wrong. It's weak to let your pride get you sick. It's weak to drink water from a wild source to impress people for clicks. It's weak to lets your pride get you sick or worse. It's just plain stupid and irresponsible.

I invite anyone to check my facts on this. Check it. Look it up. Prove me wrong. If I'm wrong I'll admit I'm wrong PUBLICLY! So...if you think I'm wrong, then PROVE ME WRONG.

You can't. And you won't because you know I'm right

I challenge anyone to prove me wrong on this issue. Go ahead. Anyone in the world. Scientists too. If I'm wrong I'll admit I'm wrong. Show me I'm wrong. I will admit I'm wrong publicly in front of the entire world.

I have no pride in the matter, when it comes to facts and science my pride is meaningless.

In the wild, your pride can get you killed.

#1 rule in survival. Don't be a dumbass!

But this isn't about me being right or wrong. It's about the facts. I'm not attached to my opinion. I have no pride or ego to hold onto when it comes to the truth. If I'm wrong and the science says I'm wrong then I MUST CHANGE MY BELIEF based on the scientific facts. Holding onto my incorrect opinions when the facts show me I'm wrong makes me a fool. I might be stupid, but I'm no fool.

Here's the point.

The point is there's no such thing as "safe" natural water in the wild.

There is a dangerous mentality going around that "nature or "natural" means "safe". It's not.

A bear is natural. And a bear will eat you.

Ice is natural. If you fall through the ice the lake can drown you or hypothermia will freeze you to death if you can't get warm. Ice will kill you.

Gravity works too, if you fall off a cliff or down a mountainside and bonk your head, you're dead. Gravity will kill you.

Water will drown you too. And all water in the wild has some number of microbes swimming around in it.

All "natural" deaths.

And just because water looks clean to the naked eye doesn't mean it's safe to drink.

It might be "cleaner" or "safer" than obviously stagnant smelly nasty still water, but it doesn't mean it's safe to drink. Could you get away with it in a pinch? Sure. But it's an odds game.

I see a lot of people saying "Dehydration will kill you, so drink up".

If you're literally going to die of dehydration, and you have no way of filtering or boiling water in the wild, then first off...let me ask you a dumb question. 

WTF are you doing in the wild unprepared?

You have a choice to make. It's your choice, you're playing the odds.

You may not get sick...but you might, and if you're already in a weakened state from no food, cold or injury, and if you're gonna die of dehydration, then you gotta do what you gotta do for the immediate emergency.

If it's a matter of me dying of dehydration or risking getting sick, then yeah, I'll drink the water. Yes...It's a risk. Will I be ok? Probably. Maybe. Maybe not. It's an odds game.

And the main point here is that it's better to be safe and healthy than sorry and sick. Or worse.

In a real world survival scenario, if your body is already weak from lack of food or injury and you get sick on top of it, you decrease your odds of survival in the wild.

Every factor or metric is a variable that correlates directly to your odds of survival. Almost every little variable increases or decreases your odds of surviving.

No one's saying not to drink water if you have to in a survival scenario...but if you're in the wild with no way to filter or boil your water, you're not really a survivalist now are ya?

If you're in the wild with no container for water and cooking, no way to filter water, no way to start a fire to boil water in your container, then what are you doing in the wild unprepared?

Learn survival before trying to tell me, someone with 51 years of survival experience how to survive.

I've survived in places that you would never even think of going because of how dangerous it is. I've drank some disgusting water and never got sick, and I've drank clean looking water and did get sick. It's all about the odds of consuming water with the wrong pathogens.

The science is clear on this. It's unarguable. It's indisputable.

We have hundreds of years of proven science about this one issue alone.

Your argument against the science of survival isn't the flex you think it is.

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