Finding water

What you need

• Something that holds water
• Cloth
• Patience

How

1. Go downhill. Water runs down and collects in the low ground and at the foot of slopes.
2. Follow the green. A line of alder or a strip of brighter growth across a hillside usually has water under it.
3. Listen at first light and at dusk when the wind drops. Running water carries a long way in still air.
4. Watch the animals and the bird lines morning and evening.
5. Dig a hole a foot down beside a dry brook bed, on the outside of a bend, and let it seep in and settle.
6. Set out anything that catches rain and run a tarp corner into a container. Rain is the easiest water you will ever get.

Watch for

Notes

On this island the trouble is almost never finding water. It is treating it.