Source: Prepper Aaron

Preppers, how do you filter water in an emergency… without a filter?  Filtering water is not something most people normally spend much time thinking about – after all, the water that comes out of your sink is perfectly safe to drink. But during an emergency or in a survival situation out in the wild, you cannot take potable water for granted. In those situations, knowing how to purify water without a filter on hand or how to make a water filter in the wild can be the difference between life and death.

Thankfully, there are a number of survival water filter DIY methods that can work in a pinch and require only materials that you are likely to have on hand around the house or can find in the backcountry. This is a case where studying these methods a little bit ahead of time can make an…