Water is the most thing you can have in your list of basic survival essentials. The human body can last about 3-4 days without water. You not only have to think about your water supply, but you also need to think about how to purify the water. Water purification involves the removal of pollutants, toxic metals, bacteria, and parasites. This is not even the complete list of impurities water purification removes from your drinking water. The CDC reported the following statistics: “Burden of waterborne disease in the United States We estimated that 17 waterborne pathogens caused the following in 2014:
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