On the latest episode of the Discovery Channel’s hit series, Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls shows us that when you run out of water in a survival situation it’s good to drink your own urine to rehydrate yourself. What he didn’t explain was that as the body becomes dehydrated the condensed urine concoction can be detrimental to your health, and in many cases it’s better to withstand the ill effects of dehydration rather to consume your own waste water. My solution to this: drink the fresh urine of those in your survival party who are well hydrated and feel that drinking urine is disgusting. Use the later to your advantage—you can directly influence others into thinking their urine IS disgusting. It’s important to remember that when you realize you’re in a survival situation you need to start telling those you’re with things like, “I’d rather die than drink pee…wouldn’t you agree?” and “Drinking your own pee is sort of gay…wouldn’t you agree?” As soon as they pee you need to find a way to discretely collect it. Tell them you’re practicing Leave No Trace guidelines and offer to “throw out” their pee for them. You could suggest they pee in your cup so you can pack the urine out. Alternately, you could tell your friends that bears will often follow the scent of urine and eat those who match the smell…again, suggest packing out the waste in your cup.