DRINKING-WATER PRODUCTION IN MILITARY OPE RATIONS

To provide for Armed Forces' water wants, drinking water is only used. Its production is not an easy thing in military operations. Armed For ces must use their own production means. Four new individual and colle ctive field purification systems adapted to manpower, will been soon i n use in the French Army. Filtration or distillation processes always with chlorin addition are used. The results give satisfaction in bacte rial epuration; nevertheless chemical and nuclear risks are not contro lled except in case of distillation mechanism associated with ion resi ns exchanging and charcoal filtration.