In this post we're going to talk about water … water to drink, water to flush your toilet, water for your animals and water to run your household.
In a disaster situation
drinkable, useable water is often the first thing that becomes unavailable and
is the one thing we cannot live without.
Several days after some of the
stores in our area had electricity restored, they still did not have safe water
to drink or bathrooms for customers use.
One store set up port-a-potties outside the store. Another store limited the number of customers
that could be in the store at one time to 25 because there was no water for the
store sprinkler system. Both of these are very large nationally well-known stores.
Drinkable, useable water was
trucked into our area by the tractor trailer loads for several weeks. Watering
stations were set up in different locations so people could get the water they
needed. For those who were trapped by
the flood waters or damaged roads getting drinkable water was a real issue.
So, let’s talk about water and
look at some ways to be prepared in this area …
Bottled water (watch for sales
and stock up if it’s not an immediate emergency), you would need to use and
rotate to keep fresh
5 gallon size jugs of water you can purchase, you would need to use and
rotate to keep fresh
Fill up the bathtub or use a waterbob
Use Watering cans to transport water
Use Watering cans to transport water
Fill up clean empty milk
cartons
Fill up empty juice bottles
Boil, treat and sterilize water from outside sources (you would want to be careful where
you got the water).
Catch rain water
Patsi
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