Scoring some water after the apocalypse
First, find a water supply.
If you don’t live near a river or sizable lake, find out how to get there safely, avoiding whatever post-apocalyptic threats you may face in this new world.
As well as that, or even instead of if you’re a bloody long way from anything resembling H2O, find a way to collect water. A water butt would be a good go to, and keep you fingers crossed that in your post-apocalyptic scenario, carbon use has dropped off a cliff, the climate has miraculously returned to its normal cycle of changes over millennia and not decades, and you get some rainfall that you can actually rely on.
But don’t hold your breath on that one.
You can also stretch out a groundsheet with a weight and hole at the centre, and a bucket underneath it to collect overnight condensation, but I really don’t think you’ll get very much by that method.
If you can score some purification tabs, that will really help, especially when you’re drinking the stuff, and there likely won’t be any NHS to clear out any food poisoning you might pick up.
Which is a very long way of saying that drinking and cooking are more important uses for water, and while hygiene is also important, you’ve got to be vicious with your priorities. Daily baths and showers are in the past, really, seriously. A bath is a once in a blue moon luxury.
If you’ve got a river nearby, just use that, or you could make a well.
And remember, humanity did survive, and thrive, before electricity, central heating , baths, showers, washing machines, and all the other things we take for granted. It’ll take some lateral thinking, but it’s not impossible.
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