Purified Water (Fallout: New Vegas)

Purified water is an drink in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Mojave Wasteland has multiple natural sources of pure, non-radioactive water, and as a result the player encounters clean water more often than in Fallout 3, where most of the water is radioactive. Drinking from a clean water source, such as the pumps at Goodsprings source or Lake Mead, will remove 200 points from the Dehydration meter. Purified water can also be bought from several merchants, including the Kings member who guards the water pump in Freeside. The player can also fill empty bottles in The Sink in the Old World Blues add-on.

The effects of purified water are modified by the Survival skill; the higher your skill, the more HP and H2O it will restore.

When playing Hardcore Mode, purified water is a more "refreshing" drink than alcohol or soda.

Crafting
Cactus water is a crafting recipe which enables the player to collect purified water from desert plants.

Variants

 * Dirty water
 * Irradiated water

Behind the scenes

 * Each bottle of purified water appears to feature the text "'H²O" hand written on the label on the side of the bottle. This format is incorrect (at least according to IUPAC nomenclature) as in chemical formula numbers are written in subscript (Xy) and not in superscript (Xy). If read literally, the chemical formula H²O would mean there is one hydrogen and one oxygen isotope that contains two neutrons (instead of the standard eight). This would leave the oxygen extremely unstable and radioactive with a half life that would be so small that it would not be measurable.