>>1168156>use them in a mud-holeYeah, that pretty much describes most free standing water in some places I've been. If you're lucky it also is more water than mud.
>May or may not also contain 1 dead kangaroo>>1168172If there's one thing I've taken from my army days, its to keep things really fucking simple. Because anything with moving parts + given to grunts = broken
So if you lose your primary means of water purification then you need something, no matter how inconvenient to back up your ability to have potable water
