Comment on Watching mouths fill up with towels

• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it really less weight though? If you have to carry in the towels and carry in the water, then combine them, isn’t that the same as carrying them already combined? Same thing with space. You’re compressing the towel but you still have to carry in the water.

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  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You already have to take water anyways even if you take regular wet wipes, and you should already be taking some extra water just in case. You don’t need as much water for these towels as wet wipes use, and in a lot of cases you can use water from the environment (like a river/stream/lake/rain/etc) so long as you’re not ingesting it or putting it on wounds, say if you’re using it to keep cool or clean yourself. So you don’t really have to take more water than you would have anyway, or at least not much more.

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  • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If there’s water available you don’t have to carry it in. Treatment tablets and filters are lighter than water, and let you make potable water as you need it.

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