Implement something that can filter the puddles into drinking water.  Maybe something like the canteen to scoop up the water then go back to your base and filter it into drinking water. 

there's a few posts here with this idea.

the one i like best is a water filter system with sand and charcoal, simple to collect, create and use.

To expand on that - You'd take 2 clover leaves and make them into a funnel with woven fiber, and a twig to use as a stand.  Add sand from the sandbox (when it unlocks) and charcoal from the Roasting Spit and a pant fiber or 2 to go between.  have a container under the funnel filter, pour your water in the filter and you get potable water in the container below.  

Limited use for the funnel filter, it'd gunk up with pond stuff after say 10 uses or so and you'd have to make a new one, or repair this one with sand and charcoal from your inventory.

I am hoping the unused 'rock' will be 'charcoal' from the grill area - allowing us to get charcoal and use it with other parts, to make a water filter system to filter pond/puddle water to use.  I want more of a 'automated' system for this, so something you'd build near the water, and could go collect clean water from periodically, over another item in our inventory that gets used/stored.

On 8/27/2020 at 1:47 AM, Odysseuss said:

Implement something that can filter the puddles into drinking water.  Maybe something like the canteen to scoop up the water then go back to your base and filter it into drinking water. 

That's an interesting idea! Having a portable water filtration system that works with puddles could be really useful, especially in survival or emergency situations. I guess it would need to be efficient enough to remove all harmful particles and bacteria. A canteen-style design sounds practical, but the filtration process would need to be quick and easy to use, too. It’d be cool to see something like this developed with both portability and effectiveness in mind.