Filtering & Purifying Water – [The Ranger Digest] Now personally, if I was wondering around for days without any water and suddenly came across some, provided it wasn’t discolored or have a strange odor� I’d drink it. Why? I’d rather risk drinking unsafe water and hope it would give me enough strength to travel/continue on just little bit further and longer than to give up and die right there on the spot from dehydration. After all, whether you feel ill after drinking some suspected contaminated water or not, if it gives you the strength to place one-foot-in-front-of-the-other and move on, your chances of surviving and being rescued before it actually overcomes you with severe illness is greater then giving up and lying down somewhere and dying, don’t ya think? Sure it is! …