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Survival Skillset

Lesson 12 of 12

Collecting water: rain, dew, bags and stills

40 min

The last part of this module is about making water come to you. In Britain, the simplest version of that is falling out of the sky most days of the year, and the best way to catch it is a sheet of plastic or a tarp rigged before the clouds arrive. In dry places, the methods get cleverer and the yields get smaller: dew wiped from grass before sunrise, water…

In this lesson

  • Rain catchment
  • When
  • How
  • How much?
  • Common mistakes
  • Dew collection with cloth
  • Transpiration bags
  • Cut-vegetation bags
  • The solar still and its poor yield
  • How it works
  • How to build one
  • Why it disappoints

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

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