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How to Find Water in the Desert

Hi. I’m Mike Meyers with Zion Wilderness Survival School for Expert Village.

You’ve been out here hiking for four or five hours, you’ve found yourself lost, and you have this problem. Very, very critical problem. In the desert, water is your number one need. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most difficult things to find. And, you need to know a few ways of locating water if there is any.

You may walk around for hours and find nothing doing all the right things. There are signs of water in the desert. Signs can be bees, flies. Both of these insects seldom venture more than a hundred or two hundred yards from some water source.

>>> It may be water in a small depression in the rocks. It may be a creek. It may be a seep where water is seeping out into small, muddy puddles. But, insects are a pretty good sign. If you see a gathering of birds, especially different types of birds, in an area, another good sign that water is nearby.

If you go to the base of large rock faces or mountain ranges, often the low areas right at the foot of those mountains or hills contain water in the ground if not in a stream. So, you need to, to start looking around you for possible signs of water. As you’re walking, constantly pay attention.

If you go to the base of large rock faces or mountain ranges, often the low areas right at the foot of those mountains or hills contain water in the ground if not in a stream. So, you need to, to start looking around you for possible signs of water. As you’re walking, constantly pay attention.

Look for the, the creek beds. Even though they’re dry, they are all running in the same direction. They’re going to a single place which is going to be a stream or a lake or some sort of water source. So, if you follow these dry creek beds down, downward, down hill, eventually, hopefully, they will reach a water source.

Around here, I mentioned earlier when talking about shelters and campsites, that this ravine ,comes down into a narrows right below us here and it exits to the north. Just to the north of us is a good half mile long string of cottonwood trees. And, cottonwood trees are probably the very best sign of water in the desert especially when you see a long string of them because that indicates a river or a creek. Cottonwood trees drink up to two hundred gallons of water a day. So, that means there’s a lot of water in the ground down there and probably a stream.

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You’ve been out here hiking
: Siete andati per un’escursione all’aperto
you’ve found yourself lost
: vi siete persi (lett. avete trovato voi stessi persi)
your number one need
: la vostra prima necessità (lett. necessità numero uno)
you need to know
: dovete sapere
a few ways
: qualche sistema, qualche modo
of locating
: di individuare
if there is any
: ammesso che ce ne sia (lett. se ce n’è
doing all the right things
: nonostante facciate tutto quello che dovete fare (lett. facendo tutte le cose giuste)
bees
: api
flies
: mosche
seldom venture
: raramente si avventurano
yards
: metri (la yarda è poco meno di un metro)
water source
: sorgente d’acqua
rocks
: rocce
creek
: torrente
seep
: bacino di raccolta d’acqua
is seeping out
: sta fuoriuscendo
muddy puddles
: pozzanghere fangose
pretty good
: abbastanza buono
gathering of birds
: degli uccelli a stormo (lett. una raccolta di uccelli)
nearby
: vicina
rock faces
: pareti di roccia
mountain ranges
: catene montuose
right at the foot
: proprio ai piedi
hills
: colline
ground
: terreno
stream
: corso d’acqua
you need to, to start looking around you
: dovete iniziare a guardarvi intorno
As you’re walking
: mentre camminate
pay attention
: state attenti
Look for the, the creek beds
: Cercate i letti dei torrenti
Even though
: Anche se
which is going to be
: che sarà
some sort of
: un qualche tipo di
dry creek beds
: letti di torrente asciutti
downward
: verso il basso
down hill
: a valle
eventually
: alla fine (attenzione: non significa ‘eventualmente’)
hopefully
: è sperabile che …(lett. sperabilmente)
earlier
: prima
when talking
: parlando
shelters
: rifugi
ravine
: gola
narrows
: strettoria
right below us
: proprio sotto di noi
it exits to the north
: esce verso nord
string
: serie
cottonwood trees
: un albero simile al pioppo che da noi non esiste
very best
: migliore, assolutamente il miglior …
drink up
: assorbono
gallons
: il gallone è un po’ meno di 4 litri
a day
: al giorno

 

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