How Long Can You Last Without Water?

 

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If you type the phrase 'how long can you last without...' into Google, given the thousands of preemptive suggestions to fire back to complete the phrase, it might surprise you that water is the first word to bubble up and claim top spot. Scan the first few pages of the 159,000,000 search results and you're presented with a collection of near identical survival websites focused on tips needed to keep your personal water tank from dipping dipping into the red.
But amid all the reams of cut and paste references, one particular tip caught my eye. It was a sentence that could easily win the award for most obvious statement of 2011; 'The best method to survive without water is not to be placed in that situation in the first place'.

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