Watch: DIY Small Desalination Still

So you need drinking water, but all you can find is salt water? No problem. Just desalinate the water. You know, separate the water from the salt.

Place a pair of bottles mouth-to-mouth, after having put salt water into one bottle. Heat the water up so it boils. Steam will move into the other bottle, and if that bottle is cooler than the boiling one, the steam will condense back into water–sans salt.

Nice.

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Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.