Water consumption

So ........ 2 adults and 2 kids will be 20L per day??

Yes, absolute minimum.

Gidday

You can avoid using water to wash the dishes etc in sand country.

Once the meal is finished, clean off the grime using a few hands full of sand. If you don’t believe me give it a go.

We were taught this by an old Dover around the sand country of Lake Alexandrina back in the late 50’ and I still do it to this day.

Regards

Kim

One litre for drinking? Did you check your pulse to see if you were still alive? The average adult respires (breathes out) 600ml overnite while sleeping (the lungs are moist by necessity and that condensation you see built up inside your tent is what you have breathed out while sleeping). Then there's what you perspire, what your digestive system requires, what your brain needs etc. Not to mention having the odd pee to keep the kidneys functioning! (Did you pee?)

Even in winter 1 litre is a dangerously low amount of water to drink. It seems the top up with grog must have been quite large.

I would suggest against taking the advice given by Voxson.

Cheers

Russ.

Maybe your one litre per day for drinking may be misleading. You probably had beer and softdrinks as well.

For backup, incase of emergency, etc. stick with 5litres per person
CJ

How many litres per day per person do people estimate they need in the simpson?

Hi Russ...
Can you see the question which i have reposted>>>>
Here it is again...

How many litres per day per person do people estimate they need in the simpson?...

Right,,,,,,

He didnt ask,,,, How many litres per day per person do people estimate "I" need in the simpson? Did he?????

So i told him of my needs......
Because he was asking about peoples needs in general..
Between two of us we could sustain life by drinking 1 litre of water per day each and having a can of grog with lunch and the drinking more grog later that night,,, maybe even 4 or 5 cans...

Then i said "A 50litre container and a supermarket style package of 24 bottles of water is usually heaps.. "...

Thats approx 65 litres of drinking water for a 4 day crossing....
Thats 8 litres each a day if we want it....

Please enlighten me on how much water you would take to cross the simpson desert in the mainstream time of year......
At this stage i feel i dont need to stand corrected by you.....

I didn't correct you. I suggested that your water consumption not be accepted as advice by the original poster. Someone had to.

Anyone whose grog consumption exceeds their water consumption while in the desert is playing a dangerous game indeed.

Russ.

Meant to say, don't forget there is a good amount of water up there most of the time. Refer thread 42880. Eyre Crk is s'posed to be 16km wide ATM - may not be ok for drinking but ok for cleaning / other stuff.