NEED WATER: The Prepper's Survival Guide

A practical guide to find, harvest, purify and store your most essential survival resource.

You can survive three weeks without food - but only three days without water. Yet most emergency preparedness guides give water a single page, buried below torches and tinned food.

NEED WATER is different: a complete, Australian-focused manual devoted entirely to the resource that matters most first. Across 27 chapters, this book takes you from the basics every household needs to the extremes few ever plan for.

You'll learn how to:

• Calculate your household's real water requirement - not a generic international average, but one adjusted for Australian heat, your family, and your pets
• Build a genuine 72-hour kit, a two-week reserve, and long-term bulk storage that actually lasts
• Harvest rainwater the right way, and understand the state-by-state rules that govern it
• Locate water in the bush using terrain, plants and animal behaviour - including traditional Aboriginal water-finding techniques passed down for generations
• Dig an emergency well, build a solar still, and extract water from plants when nothing else is available
• Screen, filter, boil and chemically treat water to a standard that actually protects your health
• Recognise and treat water-related illness before it becomes a medical emergency
• Plan for the extremes: infrastructure sabotage, bushfire-contaminated pipes, cyclones, drought, and being stranded, trapped or displaced with no clear timeline for help

Every method is grounded in real sources - government water authorities, health departments, humanitarian standards and documented case studies - not recycled internet advice. Written in clear, practical language with structured lists and step-by-step guidance throughout, this is a reference you'll return to, not a book you read once and shelve.

Whether you're building a modest emergency kit or preparing for genuine self-sufficiency, NEED WATER gives you the complete picture: how to find it, how to keep it, and how to make it safe to drink.