Drink Your Own Pee - [survival guide]

okay this will show you a "dirt" cheap method of
generating your own water for survival purposes.

clean water sources are scarce and we must learn
these methods of survival for katrina-like
emergency situations.

Step 1: Dig a hole

dig a hole about the size of a steering wheel
and about 10 inches deep

Comments

[Popopopper]

this is a cool instructable, but why did you say evaporation is cool and condensation is sexy?

[verity33]

I'm not sure that you could survive long-term on the amount of water you could distil that way, although it certainly would work. I'm thinking about getting one of these to stash in my "preparedness cupboard" ;-) http://www.lifesaversystems.com

[Hippymike96]

Would this work on salt water or would you have to use the "lifestraw"? and what is the life straw?

[monsterlego]

Time to drink my piss

[Alienjones]

I'm no expert but I remember plenty who were.

I think It was Gandi who confessed to the world he owed his health to drinking a glass of his own urine every morning. Is he still alive?

A few years back a rescue by the Australian Navy of a British Sailor who had ripped the keel off his racing yacht. Sonar bulbs dropped from the ships Helicopter picked up the sound of Tony Bullimore in his upturned yacht pumping drinking water. He used a Osmosis pump (available in many survival shops) to desalinate sea water for drinking.

I bought one after that and carried it everywhere with me. One day I had to use it. 100 pumps per tumbler full of water. Took forever to get a decent drink but it tasted OK. What was my water source? Urine of course! I mixed urine from 5 people and filtered it with the osmosis pump.

[kelson12345]

first of all, urine is 89% salt 6% poison and 5% water. you cant really drink your own pee without getting cholera eventually.

[B2BSurvivor]

Been there, done that, taught it, never got cholera. Distillation process removes vibrio bacteria as well as others. Your numbers are way off on composition of Urine. Check medical text next time, not Wikipedia! Salt and other impurities ARE remove by a solar still.

[vortexmax]

False information.Urine is a pure substance.It is used in a lot of medicines some people drink urine for their own health.If you care to do some research on Google .You will discover some truth about URINE what it does in the body when you drink it.I had a cancerous sore on my leg.An old codger said to me all you do it put your own urine in the hole and it will deal. Surprisingly it did

[Rainh2o]

Oh yeah..research on google...it will all be true because its on the internet!!! and I suppose this is a hidden medical secret doctors dont want you to know!

[ComplacentBard]

i know its not dangerous because i do it : I

just kidding

[LiquidLightning]

The ghetto? Seriously? Why not just walk up to any persons house and say, "Can I have some water?"

[FrozenIce]

hahaha....

[Gadget93]

If it's good enough for Bear, then it is good enough for...hey wait a moment.

[Ckeranen]

This reminds me of bear grylls.

[Gadget93]

LOL

[JamesTB13]

There is a much easier way for things like this, Survivorman purified salt water, you need a container with water in it, a cup in the middle, then you cover it with something, preferably clear, (like seran wrap) and then you put a rock on the plastic, over the cup. The sun will evaporate the water, it condenses on the plastic, and drips into the cup. ALSO, you can just drink urine straight away, just don't let it sit before you do, or it goes septic. But if you pee, and then drink it straightaway, you're fine.

[tablesawed]

the system Survivorman used is based off of a solar still. fyi

[tablesawed]

Life straw will NOT FILTER SALT from water, it will purify saltwater, but it does NOT DESALINATE. Go with a few solar stills (yes a few, like more than 2) per person. Did I mention that if you drink salt water through a lifestraw, as your only source of water, system you will die?

http://www.vestergaard-frandsen.com/lifestraw/lifestraw/faq

[wpcb34]

JUST MADE FRESH WATER..... BETTER DRINK MY OWN PEE

[mikaelthemycologist]

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[Rainh2o]

noo proof that drinking lots of distilled water will hurt you. It's a gimmick myth that companies invented to sell you a purifier instead of showing you how easy and free you can create pure water.

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[mikaelthemycologist]

That souldn't really matter if your eating should it?

[mikaelthemycologist]

Thanks, removed comment because it was invalid.

[Cormac]

as one whose drunk his urine, first thing, mid stream, every day for 5 years, and having read every book on the subject, such asyour own perfect medicine and the golden fountain, ican assure you all its an UNNEEDED bodily product, poop is waste, urine is sterile and 96% water, the remainder is extremly beneficial. Anyone who says otherwise should research the subject fully as i have before stating something that the Indian culture has benefited from for 5000 years!!

[Fujo]

I'm quite famiiiar with this method and it generally doesn't yield much when used in an environment where it is necessary to use such methods to collect water. There are better ways to collect drinking water and this should only be a last resort. Also you shouldn't drink urine.

[ArtemisBlue]

dont dogs and other animals drink their own usin?

[blodefood]

Never heard of that.  I doubt they would

[ArtemisBlue]

oops meant urin

[trooperrick]

Just as an interesting fact I found somewhere. Pee is cleaner than spit right when it "comes out." It's just when it sits that it gets bad.

[blodefood]

It's gross, but you could use it straight from the source to clean a wound in an emergency situation.

[15zhangfra]

poisonis plants dont work unless if your killing someone, which also the toxins created in it will be natural and make the police think he ate it by accident, which gives you time to escpae meh \o/

[A.C.E.]

all plants release water in a gas form through the pores in their leaves and "skin" as part of the water cycle. (i cant remember the name of the step, but i learned it last year) so poison plants would work.

[blodefood]

"Transpiration"?

[15zhangfra]

oh, ok, guess i was wrong

[smokehill]

Good explanation of a solar still. However, for any water that is "suspect" -- which is anything that doesn't come out of a bottle or a tap -- being able to purify it easily is important. In case of emergency, we have a large pond on our property, but I wouldn't drink out of it, so we've always kept an extra gallon or two of Clorox (the original stuff, not the fancier, newer flavors) in case we need to drink pond or rainwater. The mix is 16 drops per gallon for drinking water, and a 1:9 mix is an extremely good disinfectant. Since no one will remember the mix to use (including me, probably), I have the formula written in permanent magic marker on the side of the Clorox container. I suspect treating urine with this mix would make it safely drinkable ... though perhaps still not very appealing.

[AntonioMDC]

the problem with drinking urine isn't germs, it is everything dissolved in it that your (or someone's) body was trying to get rid of. think drinking sea water, or blood. not exactly the same, but similar problem: you wouldn't expect bleach to be able to make either of those potable. no, you have to distill it (and leave all the solids behind) as in this instructable.

[Colonel88]

It's salt, salt salt salt

[mashedpotato13]

i thought it was e. coli that made the problem- u get sick when u drink it

[blodefood]

Urine is sterile so you don't have to worry as much about germs.  You would need to ensure that your hands, genitals and the receiving container are clean before peeing. 

The bacteria comes from feces.