Question

No surface water should be drunk without being boiled or chemically treated. Don't try any short cuts.What does short cuts refer to?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Short cut refers to not doing something in its proper way as you are trying to do it in a faster and quicker way.

Exact meanings -

1 : a route more direct than the one ordinarily taken. 2: a method or means of doing something more directly and quickly than and often not so thoroughly as by ordinary procedure a shortcut to success.

Meanings - an alternative route that is shorter than the one usually taken.  

an accelerated way of doing or achieving something.