[Drinking water for troops in the field]

To provide for Armed Forces' water wants, drinking water is only used. Its production is not an easy thing in military operations. Armed Forces must use their own production means. Four new individual and collective field purification systems adapted to manpower, will been soon in use in the French Army. Filtration or distillation processes always with chlorine addition are used. The results give satisfaction in bacterial epuration; nevertheless chemical and nuclear risks are not controlled except in case of distillation mechanism associated with ion resins exchanging and charcoal filtration.