Collection and Purification of Water in the Mountains
Water consumption is essential when it’s about having a fit body, and energy to
complete the mountain summit.
Hydration is
not only for the fit body but also for the mental heart; the accurate consumption
of the water can make a person lead a happy and healthy life for more and more
years.
In every
physical activity, it is essential to maintain a proper hydration balance in
the body, as sweating reduces the hydration level; therefore, most of the time
it becomes challenging to keep it.
When it
comes to trekking, then it is a long time activity that needs proper care of
the body, and the trekking destination sometime turns out to be the place
having less or no civilization.
So in such
case the question that comes forward is then how to maintain the hydration
level when one will not be able to find the civilization even in some trekking
destinations.
So here are
a few suggestions that will give you an idea of how to collect the water into
the mountains and how to keep it clean, and purify it.
Water Sources
Collecting
the water in the mountains to get clear water is somehow easy as nature keeps
it clean but now the civilization in the mountains is also populating the
water, but in case one wants to collect the water for their further moves in
trekking.
DO’S
a. Always prefer flowing water, as it has that
process of self-purifying as the water itself clear the waste that occurs in
the flowing water.
b. Just in case you won't get the flowing
water, the best thing to do is to search for the lakes, and pools with less
waste but avoid collecting the water from the shores.
Don’t
a. The water that is used to clean the animal
ground keeps bacteria; therefore water near meadows and pastures could have a
bacterial effect so avoid collection of water near these.
b. Where there is humanity, it somehow
destroys the nature that same goes in the case of the water, avoids
accumulation of water from where humanity is high as you may the unclear water.
c. Make you that if you are collecting the
snow to make it water, so keep in mind that not always the snow that turns into
water is clean, as bacteria’s can leave in the snow for a pretty long time.
Purification of water
Boiling – The most known formal for removing
the virus from the water is by boiling it accurately, and it becomes clearer.
Therefore it is a good option if you have the utensils in your camp to boil the
water that would be a wise choice.
UV light- UV light can clean up the water,
and can remove the virus from the water; therefore you can use UV light Filter,
a pen shape filter that eliminates the germs from the water.
Treat the water with chemicals – Chemically treating the water
means adding the chemicals that can kill the bacteria’s and viruses from the water;
it could be iodine and chlorine-based chemicals.
These are
some dos, and doesn’t one can prefer while trekking into the mountains, and can
lead a successful path towards the summit.
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