A Long Walk to Water By Kirk Meyerholz, Period 4 Have you ever had to survive when you did not have food, water, or shelter? In “A Long Walk to Water” a person named Salva Dut had to run away from the war with nothing but his name. He finds himself walking across the country to find refuge and his family. The factors that made survival possible for Salva in “A Long Walk to Water” were boatbuilding and the refugee camps. The first factor that made survival possible for Salva in “A Long Walk to Water” was boatbuilding. Evidence from the text that shows how boatbuilding helped Salva survive is on page 44 where it states,” It took two full days to build enough canoes. “This shows that without teamwork Salva’s group would have never