Anyone stockpiling drinking water?

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Talking to a friend of a friend who works for a chemical company that imports some of the chemicals used to treat water. Apparently there could be a shortage of these chemicals in the event of no deal and therefore a shortage of clean water.
I guess it's similar to the gas shortage that may happen but 10 times more scary.

Anyway - are you stockpiling water and how much?

I live in the Manchester area and thought "hey, it rains a lot here, I'll be fine ". Until last summer and the terrible moor fires due to lack of rain.

I personally doubt Brexit will lead to water shortages/issues. But, as a general prepper, I have cheapo Aldi mineral water that I have bought over the year and shove in my garage. I also have a water butt. I know where local streams etc are. Most importantly I know how to filter and purify water. Including anything I might collect from any source.
Again, doubt it will be a Brexit problem.
If you are concerned, I would learn how to collect and purify water; how to collect and when to use grey water. And make sure you have a radio and know the local stations.
No one can store infinite water. Better to have the skills and knowledge.
PS - my mum's town had an unBrexit related water supply problem a couple of years ago. I remember sitting in A&E with her and the staff had to rely on bottled water. That was a wake up call too.

You could buy some of the water purification tablets. Or a life straw.

We've got water purification tablets but it's so disgusting that we'd rather have some nice water too.
Will investigate collecting my own water.
We have a waterbutt for the Brexit veg patch.

There are loads of different ways to purify water. Water purification tablets or a lifestraw are good. Tablets are pretty cheap . Lifestraw is expensive but good.
Rolling boil for a minute.
Here's more info including adding drops of thin bleach

www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/BePreparedBeSafe/SevereWeatherandNaturalDisasters/WaterPurification

I've got water but I always do because we've had multiple occasions when the water has been turned off for hours. I have bottled water and some large plastic containers of tap water that sit in the garage for general use (toilet flushing etc) Better safe than sorry.

Thanks for the link- that's useful.

Just got a lifestraw and feel much better so thank you for the tip.

I've bought some 17p bottled water for security. Also got a LifeStraw bottle - it will come in handy when on holiday in countries where tap water is unsafe anyway.

I have 12 litres 17p sparkling spring water as ds likes that, fruit juice cartons, ( 15 litres) and 11 litres of aldi drinks bottles which will last about 3 days at the rate ds drinks them. I park the car next to ex's bins and chuck the empty ones out the car into there, shared parent recycling. (given I put out his bins and take them back in sometimes seems fair, returning the favour for sending him away with a sack of rubbish to put in my bin) and about 8 litres of soya milk for dd.

I have 8 litres of still water and water purification tablets.

I've don't have a brexit stockpile but I do like to have bottled water in because I hate the taste of Tao water. So now I'm going to have to stock up in case there's a shortage because of people stockpiling

There are always piles and piles of 17p water in Aldi and Given that many people bought weeks ago.. I doubt you have noticed.

Is it worth still peeping even though nondeal is now highly unlikely?
We have food allergies to deal with and not getting the food my children need is my main concern but finances are tight and I don’t want to stockpile more than necessary.
Chances are I will panic and go to the shops today and start a stockpile of the allergy safe foods at least.
Who else is still stockpiling regardless of the likelihood of no deal brexit?

Apologies, I posted on the wrong thread.

I store tap water in my fridge. A couple of times the local water company has caused the water to go manky, so I like to have some decent stuff on hand. Makes me feel better about single-use bottles when out and about as I know I will be refilling them.

We store approximately 130L of drinking water at any time.

It exactly stock pilling but I keep some bottled water just in case. A few months ago we had a leaking pipe and DH turned the water off before I had a coffee I had to crack open a bottle.

On a less flippant note, we had to store water and food when we lived in a a earthquake zone. We needed it when an 8.9 quake hit and cut off the water supply for 5 days.

I have a Berkey water system. To be fair, I've not tried it out yet but it cost a bit and is rated highly so fingers crossed

I work for a water utility company... this is absolute rubbish. HTH

Better to know where water sources are nearby and, more importantly, how to collect and purify it - if the grid is not available. I don't feel the need to invest the money In a Berkey filter and it would be a huge expense.

By the way, @rottiemum88 , where was your water utility company when my late mum in frail old age had a polluted water supply. I remember sitting in a&e with her when she fell ill on an unrelated issue and there were water coolers and bottled water for everyone. This was about 5 years ago in NW England.

@bellinisurge I think you might be projecting a bit; much as I feel for what happened to your mum and the situation as you've described it, it doesn't have much to do with the OP.

Water treatment processes/plants form part of the UK's Critical National Infrastructure. The chemicals could run dry tomorrow and it'd be a very long time before we'd need to worry about it affecting our day-to-day water supply. So I really don't think people need to worry about the quality of their drinking water any more after a no deal Brexit than they would do today, or tomorrow or next week.

That's not to say there are never issues with drinking water quality, but that's got nothing to do with the question posed.

This is an old thread. I have already said that I don't think there would be a problem with water in a no Deal scenario.
However, google Anglia Water for today's date and discover how our lovely and perfectly working system can have problems. That's happening today 15 December 2019.

Nuts.