Finding & Making Drinking Water in the Wild | Marine & Bushcraft Pro Tips | Millbank Bag

How to find, filter and purify water in the wild for safe drinking.
Watch to the end!

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[CristiNeagu]

Off topic, but I don't think anyone, ever, has had a cooler name than Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The man is an absolute legend.

[MokuNui]

Absolutely cave investigation!! Maybe even an overnighter

[stevo]

Another method for transferring water is through capillary action. So for example, imagine you dug a hole down to the water level. The water is muddy brown. You then take a strip of absorbent material, wet it, dunk one end in the hole and the other into a container. Capillary action will then slowly draw the water up the strip of material into the container. The action will also remove the dirt from the water. True it can be a slow process but I have used it to draw gallons of water overnight from a flat roof on an previous property.

[eireannerussell]

"More fun than i intended on having!" Spoken like a true soldier

[duncys]

Oh yea wouldn’t mind seeing more of that cave or mine entrance could be a silver mine maybe? We’ve quite a lot of those in the ochil hills near us.

[xreftx]

The point of boiling water for 5-10 minutes is that some bacteria, Salmonella for example, can resist a brief boil. Also if the toxin produced by Clostridium Botulinum is present, it takes time to be de-natured by heat, even though the bacteria itself gets killed much easier.

[cripplers]

Keeping it real even after the accidental spill. That’s what makes your videos really good learning tools. You’re not doing textbook situations and continue on when something goes fubar moving forward…..

[marclacey]

Good simple to grasp informative stuff! Thanks!
Here's an extra option available - If you want to cool your water quicker, and you have the time, you can put the container in the stream for a while (providing it isn't a vac flask).

[samuelpouyt]

The boiling time depends on the altitude. Here in the alps we count 1 min per 1000 meters. That is because water boils at lower temperature the higher you go...

[andreikossatkine]

Yes! All important for any survival or backcountry excursions. Thank you Nick. Keep these edu-tainment videos coming, mate. I truly appreciate your service, experience and your knowledge. If ever I get over to the UK, I promise to look you up.

[davidian]

Having lived homeless for around 18 months in the past, in the UK, this was slightly useful. I think?? I just find an unguarded tap and use that. Take a 5ltr container and you are good for a couple of days. I've gone out at 4am just to get as much water as I can carry; a rucksack full of it (In containers, obviously).
You don't need to source and process water in places where you are uphill from habitation in remote areas. You make sure there is nothing dead upstream, find a fast flowing part and drink it. Rural... Find a tap. There's always a tap. Even, as a now non homeless person I look for taps I could access. It doesn't leave you. I'll probably do it until I die. There's a tap you could use. I could give you three water points within a 15 minute walk.

[mungo]

I have to admit I'd like to see more of the cave too. It's pretty curious.

[daviddirom]

These days I usually carry one 1 litre stainless steel and one 1 litre Nalgene wide mouth plastic bottle (old school 58 pattern guy lol) when I go out. The Nalgene is my collector bottle, (yes I mixed up my water bottles in the past) makes it easier to be picking up water on the move for filtering later. I do have a mill bank bag (3-4 years ago) but I’m glad I never got around to using it yet because the how to book (idiot guide) did not say about 2-3 filters, NO squeezing, OUR pull inside out for UVA drying. Love your videos, I’m trying to pass them around to a small group of like minded folks in my part of the world into the same things. I do give them a caviate about some of the things you say that I understand (Scottish & ex-military) that they as civilians might not understand and that might require me verbally interacting with them prior to them using the information.

[waynepugh]

HI Nick, I thoroughly enjoyed this video, as I have done with your whole series, you have a great presentation style, relaxed and down to earth. As ex British Army, I not so fondly remember the poison tabs too! Collecting water on the go, water recce patrols, reading the ground, the good old days! keep up the good work!

[davidgregory]

I spent around 6 weeks back in the 80's utilising a cave, a folly built castle and old stone built structures in north wales. I set 30 foot long lines on the beach, hunted small game such as rabbit and squirrel, utilised local flora and every by catch I sold to local chefs.

[je]

Boiling is the way my father thought my ...he was s POW at the Birma railway and that's the way he purified their water ...he lived till Nov 2011 🤗

[GunnerGibbons]

Thank you for a very interesting and informative video.
I was feeling your pain when the can went over .
Great to see the humble Millbank getting airtime.
Keep up the great work your doing and hope to see more like this.

[unwin]

Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it. As a followup for anyone wanting to go down the water rabbit hole, the channel Gear Skeptic has an extensive, really good, series on backcountry water disinfection/purification options. One of my favorite tips was to use a WAPI device to tell you when the water you're heating has been purified, saving time and fuel.

[josephchivers]

I would love to see more of that cave.

[Nick-behh]

Omg I'm so happy you made this video and that I found it lol

I've been debating what to get for my water system and I can't believe these bags aren't common knowledge (to me anyway)