The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The many ways to die

4) “Blood in the water.”

Even more so than food, people can’t survive without water. Without water for a week, we die. This means that, alongside avoiding zombies, making sure you have a constant supply of water should be your top priority.

…Of course, it needs to be clean water.

What constitutes “clean”? How about “Water without zombies in it”.

Waterborne parasites can be among the most terrible pathogens humans can encounter, and can cause cholera, typhoid, and dysentery, all of which can be extremely virulent and deadly, meaning that, having a lifetime’s supply of water won’t do you any good if every drop of it can make you violently, even fatally, ill.

Now, with that information, imagine discovering the water you’ve been drinking from has a zombie floating around in it. Do you think that drinking that water would be conducive to your health? The answer is not only “No”, but, it might be “No, because I’m already turning into a zombie!”.

For all you know, it might just take one zombie taking a bath in your drinking water to doom you and your entire group to a slow transformation into zombies from which there’s no escape.

Forget “You are what you eat”, what we should really concern ourselves with is becoming what we drink…