# Starting without water
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [April 4, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319 "2015-04-04T00:28:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319/1 "2015-04-04T00:28:07Z")
No profession should start without water without a very good reason. I would say 99% of the people out there know the importance of water. At the very least the survivalists should have water and probably even some water purifying pills.
Also think survivalist should start with an emergency blanket. 😛
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319/2 "2015-04-04T03:35:27Z")
Most professions are caught more or less unprepared and forced into DDA with what they were wearing/carrying. Good enough reason IMO: I don’t carry a bottle of water on me 24/7.
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### Author:  [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319/3 "2015-04-04T06:27:29Z")
It’s a wilderness survivor. Of course they are going to have water…
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### Author:  [@Turtlicious](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Turtlicious)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319/4 "2015-04-04T06:49:31Z")
> [@KA101](#):
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> Most professions are caught more or less unprepared and forced into DDA with what they were wearing/carrying. Good enough reason IMO: I don’t carry a bottle of water on me 24/7.
Idk, I carry water around 24/7 in a cup with a straw.
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### Author:  [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319/5 "2015-04-04T07:36:45Z")
> [@Miloch](#):
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> It’s a wilderness survivor. Of course they are going to have water…
Good point.
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319/6 "2015-04-04T17:05:08Z")
I was replying to the first two line, thank you very much:
> [@Miloch](#):
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> No profession should start without water without a very good reason. I would say 99% of the people out there know the importance of water.
Survivalists getting a plastic bottle of clean water, sure, that can be considered. (Code limitation: clean water can only be given in plastic bottles or uncontained, so far as I know. You want a different container, you have to put the clean water into it yourself. :-/ )
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### Author:  [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-without-water/9319/7 "2015-04-04T22:30:35Z")
Ok. That explains it. (code limitations) 😛
I just think about anyone who is truly survival minded (like the profession is supposed to be) would have some means to purify water. I like the fact that they start with a canteen. It fits. So let’s use the code limitations and what they already have together to make a simple scenario. You start playing the survivalist right as they have run out of water. I believe they should have some means to purify some water on them. Either a water purifier or a bottle of the water purification pills. I’d go with the pills as they are more compact and make more sense for a bug out bag.