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If you spend any time in the outdoors, you could certainly get lost. You need some survival items when you’re lost and desperate, like when you spend time in the outdoors beyond your own back 40 – assuming that you ...

Do you consider yourself a survivalist or prepper? If so, then we have some good news – and it involves an item that literally should be No. 1 on your list of survival gear. For two weeks (until May 16), ...

We all know trees clean the air we breathe. Trees work hard to keep the outside air clean — but what about the air inside our houses? NASA has done multiple studies since the 1980s about how to improve or ...

On a fundamental, biological level, water is the most critical, ingestible resource for survival of most any organism, including humans. The average person engaged in average activity in a temperate climate can live for three days without water. No exceptions. ...

About 15 percent of people in the US meet their water requirements through private wells. If you’re one of them, it feels good to be independent with regard to water. But, do you worry about the quality of the water ...

We all know that we need water to survive. Perhaps we even buy elaborate water purification systems or stockpile water. But what do you do when you’re out in the wilderness, thirsty and lost, and need water to fill your ...

People have been harvesting rainwater for thousands of years, and some of the same techniques that were used back then are still used today. Rainwater harvesting is a key element to being totally self-sufficient, and even though other techniques and ...

Making fire and sanitizing water are perhaps your most important skills to utilize in the wild.  Coming straight out of the U.S. Army Field Manual 21-76, your survival depends upon the “rule of 3’s.” You can survive three minutes without ...

The reality of the matter is that as privileged as we are in the United States to have plenty of opportunities to access clean and sanitized water, that may not always be the case. Preppers are more familiar with the ...

Without a clean, potable source of water, you cannot survive indefinitely. You may make it for a few days, perhaps a week. However, your body will eventually dehydrate, and you can die if you do not find clean water soon. ...