If a person happens to be in a populated area, he must d ghusl until such time that he loses hope in finding water. The same applies if one happens to be staying in a desert, like those who stay in tents. If a person is on a journey in a desert, he must laces near where he is staying.
The obligatory precaution is that if the ground is uneven, or if due to some other reason the road is difficult to traverse – for example, because it has a lot of trees – one must go in search of water in the area around him as far as the distance that a shot arrow travels as it would have been shot from a bow in the past.[1] If the land is even, however, one must go in search of water in the area around him up to the distance that two shot arrows travel.[2]