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From [Arqade](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/283682/is-squirtle-
water-potable?noredirect=1#comment399382_283682 "Arqade")...

I've seen this photo on Facebook:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xn5i2.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xn5i2.jpg)

For sure I would take Charmander for the flame-throwing capabilities, but for
the second starter I was thinking about grabbing Squirtle.

Gaining access to clean water would be one of the biggest challenges you would
face in a zombie apocalypse, and Squirtle's water gun could be a very easy
solution.

Question is, is that water potable?


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Is Squirtle's water potable?


I'll answer this with an answer I found
**[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/2p54d2/do_you_think_it_would_be_safe_to_drink_water_from/)**
via a user by the name of **ItalianRapscallion**.

> I assume, since so much is generated, its just summoned from a point inside
> their mouth (or whatever aperture, gem, whathaveyou). That is, it comes into
> being right then (not teleported from somewhere or produced by an organ --
> since you cannot compress a liquid, a squirtle, say, could not store the
> amount of water you typically see him emitting)...
>
> My guess is no, because if you are materializing water from thin air, would
> that pokemagic create minerals / salt at normal levels too? It's probably
> pure water, maybe a little saliva mixed in depending on the aperture from
> whence it came (but if so it wouldn't be enough to make a difference). In
> other words, drinking it would leech all the minerals and saline out of your
> cells, it wouldn't hydrate you, and if you drank enough you would eventually
> explode on a cellular level.
>
> **Edit: further mulling made me realize an easy test, (which i don't recall
> from the show) Do we ever see electricity travelling along water spewed from
> a water pokemon? If so, the water is conductive, i.e. mineralized, therefore
> you can probably drink it.**

Given the fact that Suicune has the ability to "walk across water and purify
dirty water with one touch", I believe that the fact that the water Pokemon
produce is in fact **not pure** due to the fact that it was never stated
anywhere that it was indeed pure, as well as the fact that one Pokemon out of
all of them was given the phrasing of pure water. **(Suicune is legendary, so
you can't just choose him and forget about the water purity issues.)**

In all honesty through my searches of the web, I haven't found anything
conclusive on the topic, so we can put it in a grey area, in which we are
never really sure of the answer until we can see it for ourselves.

**That said** , the fact that **Water Type** Pokemon are **weak to** Pokemon
of the **Electric Type** , it is safe to assume that the water they produce
does indeed contain the minerals and nutrients it requires.

Even with this info however, we don't know just how bad the state of the water
is, as that is never discussed. So even though it does contain the minerals,
we don't know if it contains any virus, or disease that would harm us.
(Considering the nature of the games and anime, I think it's safe to assume
they don't, but for the sake of this, we can't rule it out. It could be life
or death after all.)

**My conclusion is that:** It _should_ be safe, however we can't guarantee it
for multiple reasons, so keeping a Squirtle would be a good idea, though try
to bring a form of filter with you, for a safety precaution.

Edit 2: Thanks to
**[Senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin)** I was
informed that distilled water would not kill you, unless it was the only water
you drink. Meaning that, if you have some other source of water coming in,
from time to time, on a regular basis, you would be completely fine in that
instance. This, sadly however, still doesn't cover the fact that:

  1. You're in an apocalypse, so water sources other than rivers, the ocean, ransacked stores, etc, is not going to be the most reliable in a city environment, though in the countryside you have more chance of finding natural bodies of water.
  2. It might be dangerous water, rather than distilled water, coming from the Pokemon.

**I say again** , bring a water filter of some sort, as well as a Squirtle, to
ensure your own safety.


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