You need to be able to collect, process and store water. All collected water should be brought to a rolling boil for one minute to kill bacteria. You can survive a few weeks without food before you start to die. With no water you will be dead in less than a week. Even if you have some, rationing to extend the supply will still result in …
You need to be able to collect, process and store water. All collected water should be brought to a rolling boil for one minute to kill bacteria. You can survive a few weeks without food before you start to die. With no water you will be dead in less than a week. Even if you have some, rationing to extend the supply will still result in dehydration which will cause severe health consequences before you run out of food. Protein requires a lot of water to digest, metabolize, and excrete the waste. Carbs require less. The general rule of thumb for water consumption is one gallon per day per person. You should increase that to two gallons per day per person for cleaning and sanitation. One 55 gallon blue water barrel is about one month of life for one person. How many people are in your household? If you have a barrel per person that is still only about one month of not dying from stupidity. If you have four people in your household that is about a barrel a week. You need to figure out NOW how you’re going to refill the barrels with safe, clean water. If you have two five gallon jugs that’s SIX trips to get water from your nearest pond or river or other natural sources if you even have one. Try walking for one hour carrying a full five gallon jug in each hand. They weigh about 41.7 pounds each. Now do that once a day for six days straight to simulate filling that one barrel. Yeah. You’re gonna die.
Super quick note around that: we keep our orange juice containers (Kirkland and Simply), rinse those out, fill them with water and store them. We’re at around 100 of those bottles so about 46 gallons of clean, easy stored water. Don’t need a ton of room either. Even just an apartment.
We have quite a bit of rain catchment and a well also but the former is something anyone could do and reuses a solid container.
You need to be able to collect, process and store water. All collected water should be brought to a rolling boil for one minute to kill bacteria. You can survive a few weeks without food before you start to die. With no water you will be dead in less than a week. Even if you have some, rationing to extend the supply will still result in dehydration which will cause severe health consequences before you run out of food. Protein requires a lot of water to digest, metabolize, and excrete the waste. Carbs require less. The general rule of thumb for water consumption is one gallon per day per person. You should increase that to two gallons per day per person for cleaning and sanitation. One 55 gallon blue water barrel is about one month of life for one person. How many people are in your household? If you have a barrel per person that is still only about one month of not dying from stupidity. If you have four people in your household that is about a barrel a week. You need to figure out NOW how you’re going to refill the barrels with safe, clean water. If you have two five gallon jugs that’s SIX trips to get water from your nearest pond or river or other natural sources if you even have one. Try walking for one hour carrying a full five gallon jug in each hand. They weigh about 41.7 pounds each. Now do that once a day for six days straight to simulate filling that one barrel. Yeah. You’re gonna die.
Super quick note around that: we keep our orange juice containers (Kirkland and Simply), rinse those out, fill them with water and store them. We’re at around 100 of those bottles so about 46 gallons of clean, easy stored water. Don’t need a ton of room either. Even just an apartment.
We have quite a bit of rain catchment and a well also but the former is something anyone could do and reuses a solid container.
Well said, Danway.