Behind shelter, the ability to obtain water and make it potable is the greatest immediate survival need*. In this guest article from American Partisan, you can learn ways to do just this.
*To me, the hierarchy of survival needs is dictated by my own version of the "rule of threes". I like to say that one can survive only three hours exposed to harsh elements without shelter. Obviously this doesn't apply to most areas of the US, or even the world, but in the worst locations, or in most locations at their worst seasons, it can easily happen. You can survive only about three days or so without water. You see where this is going. You'll get by for about three weeks without a food source, or so the conventional wisdom says. This is quite variable depending on your condition and activity, and access to shelter and water. My own theory to keep this going is that you can maybe get by for about three months without any kind of security considerations. Of course this is dependent on you location and about a hundred other factors, but keeping with my modified rule of threes, it's easy to remember these four survival needs as the "primary needs".
"Secondary survival needs" in my book need to be built up after the primaries are addressed. The secondary needs allow you to go on the offensive and take action in your AO, rather than the primaries which allow you to survive and defend.
These secondary needs are medical (skills and supplies), information (intelligence gathering, SIGINT, HUMINT), communications (two-way radio between people in your group, ham and CB for longer ranges or comms between other groups, phones, etc.) and transportation (anything from automobiles to horses and bikes).
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