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Besides food, water is the second basic need that you must satisfy on your adventure. first, our intestinal flora contained the same bacteria that are found in wild water, so we could drink it carefully. but, our clean lifestyle has killed most of them. If your intestine is exposed to these bacteria again, it's so overwhelmed that it reacts to it with diarrhea and vomiting. so, never drink water from streams, rivers or lakes without 1st sterilizing it. Only new spring water is free of bacteria and bacteria and may be drunk without hesitation. Everything else should be boiled or sterilized in some other way. Warning: chemical impurities, heavy metals, pollutants and hormones can not be removed from the water. So be sure that the water of your choice hasn't earlier flowed through cities, industrial regions or farming regions and that no waste water is discharged into it. decide a place to sleep So that your 1st night in the wilderness doesn't become a nightmare, there are some things to think about when picking a place to sleep. Avoid places where there's high humidity. In winter the wetness assures that you cool down faster and in summer it attracts mosquitoes. If you dont want to build an emergency shelter out of leaves, coniferous forests are ideal as storage places, since the concentrated needle roof gives wind and rain protection. Make totally sure that there aren't dead branches in the trees above you that could fall down throughout a storm. Protection from the weather Once you have found a suited place to sleep, you must choose how you want to protect yourself from the weather throughout the night. 1st, look out for natural protection opportunities like rocky outcrops, caves, fallen trees and the like. On dry nights where there aren't freezing temperatures, a fire is typically enough to keep you warm. also, you may be able to build a simple protecting dwelling. The simplest form is the leaf sleeping bag. To do this, gather a pile of leaves that are about half a meter high and twice as large as you're. It should be about half a meter longer than your height. Form a hollow in the center of the pile lengthways that you lie in and cover yourself with the leaves to the left and right of you. On nights with a high chance of rain, you may be able to build a leaf hut by covering the leaf pile. To do this, 1st build a roof structure made of a stable ridge and many branches. Then cover it with leaves. For it to be really waterproof, the upper level of leaves must be around one and a half meters thick. In this case, crawl with your feet through the opening into the leaf hut to sleep. Start building the hut early enough as it'll take some time. Should you tell your friends