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Summary: Filtering drinking water safely requires a tarp and the use of fire to boil water to create condensation that will builds on the tarp and drip back into a container. Filter water safely with tips from a safety enthusiast in this free video on drinking water.
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"Hi. This is Eric Sterns with Expert Village. Today we're talking about acquiring water and making it safe to drink. So, what we're doing at this point, this is a way of filtering water that is fairly fool proof. There are a few different ways to configure it. It requires the use of a fire. What we're going to do here is; this is going to be a simulation due to our conditions I'm not actually going to start a fire at this point. What one would do is one would have their fire or their stove. Their water would be boiling. The tarp is hanging at a certain distance so that the water as the steam rises re-evaporates, re-condenses and goes back into liquid on top of the tarp. There is a rock or some heavy object back here on this part of the tarp that causes the water as it drips to go down, travel down the tarp and then drip back into the secondary container. This is evaporation and condensation. The lovely thing about this particular type of cleaning water is it goes from a liquid state into a chemical state and then back into a liquid state again. As a result of this no further purification or filtration is necessary. So, this is a way to clean your water that requires no other items, no other tools."