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Water supply in the tropics. Tourist tips

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Jungle waters more than enough under your feet and over your head. Streams and streams, hollows filled with water, swamps and small lakes are found at every step. It's just dangerous to drink it, because. often it is infected with helminths, pathogenic bacteria and microbes that cause serious illness. In stagnant and slow-flowing water bodies, water has a high organic pollution, so it must be disinfected before use.

If there is no time to boil and filter water, then you should look for water-bearing plants.

One such aquifer is the Ravenala palm (Ravenala madagascariensis), called the tree of travelers. This woody plant, found in the jungles and savannas of the African continent and Southeast Asia, is easily recognizable by its wide leaves located in the same plane, which resemble a blossoming peacock's tail or a huge bright green fan. Thick cuttings of leaves have receptacles where up to 1 liter of water can accumulate.

Residents of Burma to quench their thirst often use the water that accumulates in the hollow stalk of the reed, which they call the "savior of life." One one and a half meter stem of the plant contains up to a glass of clear, slightly sour-tasting water.

Baobabs

A kind of storage of water, even during periods of severe drought, is the baobab. A large amount of moisture contains porous baobab wood.

In the jungles of Southeast Asia, on the Philippine and Sunda Islands, there is an extremely curious water-bearing tree known as malukba. By making a v-shaped notch on its thick trunk and adapting a piece of bark or a banana leaf as a gutter, you can collect up to 180 liters of water. This tree has a striking property: water can only be obtained from it after sunset.

Bamboo

The most common aquatic plant is bamboo. True, not every bamboo trunk stores a supply of water. Bamboo, containing water, has a yellowish-green color and grows in damp places obliquely to the ground, at an angle of 30-50 °. The presence of water is determined by the characteristic splash when shaken. One meter knee contains from 200 to 600 g of clear, pleasant-tasting water. Bamboo water maintains a temperature of 10 - 12 ° even when the ambient temperature has long exceeded 30 °. A knee filled with water can be used as a flask to have a supply of fresh fresh water that does not require any pre-treatment during the transition.

Water can also be obtained from vines, the lower loops of which contain up to 200 ml of a cool, clear liquid. However, if the juice is lukewarm, bitter or colored, you should not drink it: it may be poisonous.

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