Drinking Water Safety: Collect With Poncho

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Eric Sterns with Expert Village. We are currently discussing acquiring water and making it safe to drink. The next technique we are going to look at and demonstrate is collecting rain with a poncho or some kind of plastic sheet depending on what you have available. Could even be one of your tarps if you are not using it for shelter purposes. Cutting two more pieces of the chord and we are going to use the last two sections, we are going to tie off. Because of the situation we got here, I want to tie it off to my tent. But I don't necessarily have a fourth point to tie it off to. So what I'm going to do is improvise by tyeing it to my shelter. I'm going to do this, by once again tyeing off to the grommets and the corner. Then I"m going to come over here, and I'm going to also tie off to the grommet in this corner. Draw these two together. And then this will actually be, this will actually be tied off to the tent. So what we basically done here, now there is a hole here so what we are going to do is we are going to utilize that instead of trying to make it go away. What we will do is we created a triangular basin that will actually catch a significant amount of water. What we are going to do is we would tie, we would take an extra bandanna a piece of cloth, attach it to the corner here. Ok we are actually, we are actually going to take a water, a drinking container like we had previously, put it below this and simply allow it to drip in. So that it's controlled collection of water."