How much water do you carry?

[Bulldog]

How much do you allow yourself per 24 hour period?
My rough rule of thumb is two 58 bottles of water per 24 hours one to drink one for cooking with.If its a lazy camp not really moveing far from my shelter i will use more, those 58 mugs are large and who wants half a cup of tea!!
So i usually carry 4 water bottles, what about you?

 

[SimonM]

3L Platypus with a 58patt botle in reserve for 24 - 36 hours.

 

[Peterlee_Paddler]

That would depend upon what I was doing in that 24 hour period.
A lot of outdoors folk underestimate the need for enough water, especially MTB-ers.
Without enough, the food you eat doesn't 'work' properly, not getting digested thoroughly.
Oops, off on a tangent ...

 

[JohnL]

I normaly carry 2l for 24hours, & drink all of it, & refill whenever poss. If warm weather when I am active I normaly aim to drink 4l a day.

 

[w00dsmoke]

I use between 3 and 5 litres a day for cooking, brewing, washing up and washing.

 

[scallywag]

I normally water consumption would be around 5 litres.

 

[Shewie]

If I've got a long walk in or I'm on the hills all day before camp I'll fill my 3L platypus.

If I know there's fresh water en route I'll usually only carry my 1L Sigg and fill up as I go along.

 

[rawshak]

I generally head off with a full 750ml Surviva-Pure waterbottle, as it has a built in purification system, so I can get clean drinking water from any source. I've never really had a problem finding useable water in the UK using this system and it saves carying a lot of extra weight. Once we've established camp, we've always got water on the boil over the fire (we always try to camp near a river), so it's never really been a problem.

I'm sure this wouldn't work quite as well in a less damp country

 

[redandshane]

I am really luck in that I have found a site with a spring
otherwise though its a struggle but general carry 2 litres flexiflak or bottle and replenish when i can

 

[Raptor]

2 litres to drink + 2 litres cooiking/hygene = 4 litres.

 

[Minotaur]

I carry 3, but use about 5.

 

[adderrustler]

4 litres 1 ltr every 6 hrs min plus refils ! when walking thats an absolute minimum in any conditions

 

[Wild Thing]

I carry between 3 & 5 litres

This would be made up of 2, 1 litre water bottles and a 3litre camelbak, or a combination of these.

One thing I don't like being short of is water.

 

[Matthew.Passmore]

I carry 1 Litre of water and refill along the way as needed, I drink as much as i can, a litre every couple of hours or so.

 

[drewdunnrespect]

well i normally have a 1 litre 58 pattern bottle full all the time and then i usually have a three litre bladder that i will fill up once i am at camp if nessecary or applicable due to the fact if i am car camping i will bring a couple of bottles of water from home so i always have enough

drew

 

[bushcraft_lad]

i carry two 58 pattern waterbottles but if its fairley warm also a 2 liter hydration bladder and a 10 liter water carryer witch i fill toward the end of the day for cooking,cleaning,drinking seems to work for me

 

[Sniper]

I normally carry in about a gallon per day but saying that I'm never that far from the car so weight is'nt a problem, and niether is replen but I always carry my premac filter just in case.

 

[sirex]

2L for 2 of us.

 

[widu13]

2L, when the 1st is gone, replenish and treat and so on. Water is heavy!