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Water - You Just Gotta Have It!

Let's answer a truly critical question...

How much attention have you given to the need for an adequate supply of potable water? Where do you think it is going to come from when the water lines are ruptured?

We take water so much for granted, most of us think having enough food and ammo on hand is all we need in case of an emergency. But without water, death is not far away. Three days away in fact.

In an emergency, city supplies will be gone. Even if you have a well, you could find it suddenly quits running, not just because the power has gone out, but because earthquakes rupture underground streams and reservoirs. It happened last week (November 2012) to several hot springs in the Canadian national park north of Vancouver Island after a 7.2 earthquake out at sea.

Maybe your steel six-inch well pipe will survive the quake, but we know for a fact that an earthquake can suddenly turn well water into a rusty sludge.

At the heart of the Great Shakeout project is the idea that individuals need to be prepared, because government agencies will be overwhelmed.

California learned from its Shakeout that "In the case of a large earthquake, it is possible that help will not come for two weeks."

What does that mean? It means the unprepared will become a burden on those who have prepared. It's happening right now in New Jersey and other places devastated by Sandy. We can certainly have compassion for those who find themselves in such dire circumstances. And yet, we can't help but wonder why the vast majority of people seem to think that "the authorities" will rescue them.

Frankly, it's rather ironic that those of us who have spent years encouraging people to be prepared have been labeled as scaremongers and doomsayers - and here we have a real-world disaster which is exactly what we were trying to alert people to be prepared for!

Further, doomsayer or not, we can expect more such superstorms, and bigger and nastier earthquakes in the months and years ahead.

Which brings us back to water.

If there is one thing that should be taking priority in anyone's prep planning, water is it.

You need water to cook. To drink. To stay alive. (And let's not forget your pets, gardens and livestock).
You need stored water.
You need a minimum of one gallon per person per day.
You need to start storing water now.

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