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.