How much water do you have per person per day in your stores?

[PanicNotAtTheDisco]

Just that really? How much water do you plan for?

Was just thinking. If there's an Ebola or zombie outbreak or zombies WITH Ebola, then the water in rivers would be infected with the bodies. my be watching too many zombie films

Ebola victims kind of are the closest thing to zombies in what happens to the body in a way - the way tissues including the brain basically disintegrates at speed, and the copious highly infectious bleeding.

Though I guess rabies has the biting, so they are closest on the behaviour front.

But hoarding water is odd. What disaster could occur realistically that means you need 200 litres of water?

But hoarding water is odd. What disaster could occur realistically that means you need 200 litres of water? Well here, earthquake. Also; flooding, disease outbreak, environmental issue (nuclear power station or such), snow, worsening weather events...

We have a 20L (I think) plastic thingie, some water packets which last three years and some water treatment drops. Oh, and a life straw.

I saw this thread title in Actives as I was going to bed on Sunday night.

Laughed and said I'd read it tomorrow.

Monday morning there was no water from the taps. Straight to United Utilities website. They'd already looked into it, nothing to do with them, goodbye and good luck ...

I had just enough water in the kettle to make it worthwhile grinding beans for a single cup of coffee.

Having lived in countries where water sometimes arrived on the back of a truck and was stored in jerry cans I ought to be more prepared.

But I'd be grateful if someone could explain how to reconcile a deep seated hatred of environment destroying plastic water bottles with meaningful water storage in a city.

Buy a 20l food grade water bottle. Lasts longer than ordinary mineral water bottles

Drink from 20l water bottles not from the tap so have about 20-40l in the house at any one time in general which lasts us as a couple at least two weeks (drinking only though, not cooking or washing).

As for environment destroying- these 20l bottles at least are always collected and refilled by the water companies. My SIL's family otoh always drank from tiny 200ml water bottles last time I saw, which was madness.. She was worried her toddler would knock over a big water bottle

I have the food grade 20l bottles. Just refill from the tap every so often. They're big and heavy and so I also have a tap attachment.

Yes its plastic but its being used over and over again.

Where did you get them, atticus, and the tap, please?

I got mine from Amazon. No tap though...

Mine were from amazon too. They were about £8ish and the tap was only a couple of pounds.

Are they suitable for water storage? You can't use some plastics, they leach apparently.

Yes that's food grade 25 litre containers. You always need to use food grade plastic.

Found em, muchos gracias

What are you all going to do about toileting and cleaning then? Toilets are one flush away from dependence on mains water working at any one time so if you intend to keep on using them ( might not be possible in eg a flood) then your water needs go up massively.

I hope everyone has a spade handy.

There's a Wikki for everything.
www.wikihow.com/Defecate-Outdoors

There's a list on the internet somewhere of the things that disappear first in the event of an emergency (where there is some notice). Camping toilets is right at the top!

Which all rather assumes that - DD aged 16, say - can live with having an unflushed scrap of toilet tissue floating in the loo for more than 14 seconds. (Yes - there are people who use a large amount of drinking-grade water to get rid of the pull out hairs from a hair brush.)

I wonder whether some consciousness-raising ought to be going on right now?

Every time I come onto this thread I get an advert at the top selling me something for use in the event of a no-water emergency. I haven't clicked any prepping links - or done anything on my phone to alert ad-robots.

Can they read threads now?

If so, I suspect that Them's the Breaks. Sales and Marketing may be testing a 'new' topic's advertising pull. ( Which would bode rather well for having a new board don't you think? )

Who the fuck needs advice on how to take a shit outside [confused

Although I apparently need advice on using my phone

We are moving this over to our brand new Preppers topic in a mo

so happy to see a proper topic. Many thanks!