"How to find, purify, filter, and store clean drinking water is of primary importance to preppers and off-grid homesteaders. Water is the element that sustains all life, but most of the earth's surface water is unsafe for human consumption. Nicholas Hyde's latest work may well become the most important reference book in your survival kit. -- Learn how to drill your own well using hand tools, how to properly harvest rainwater, how to find water in the wild, and what to do with your infinitely renewable water supply once you have established it. Topics covered include: The Dangers of Drinking Wild Water, Purifying Water at Home, Building Your Own Water Filter, Home Distillation, Land-Based Marine Water Makers, Drilling Your Own Well, Collecting Rainwater, Other Sources of Water in the Wild, Practical Water Storage Solutions, Other Interesting Water Gadgets."--publisher/container.