Here is the City Prepping Water Guide. In it, you will find everything you need to know about water, storing water, and how much you need. Water Guide. While you will find a lot of very useful information in there, pay particular attention to the sections: HOW MUCH WATER DO YOU NEED?, HYDRATION, and TREATMENT AND FILTRATION OPTIONS. That will give you a full understanding of what you’re up against in an emergency and what you can do about it. Then, peruse the whole guide. Take the sum of gallons of water you will need for 21 days from the chart earlier in this module. Determine how you can meet that goal.
- Do you have the storage capabilities or filtration options you will need?
- What containers do you need, and where will you store them? A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds, so what will that 20 or 50-gallon container you plan on using weigh when filled? Will that be a structural problem, or will it limit what you can take with you if you have to bug out?
- If you have a running stream on your property, great. How will you filter and store that water?
- Will you have to compete for wild water resources in your own neighborhood?
- Do any of your risk assessment potential disasters also involve flooding, because that can quickly contaminate municipal water supplies?
- Do you have an alternate cooking means to boil water?
- Do you have electrolytes, sports drink powders, protein powders, or other additives to provide you quick nutrition, salt balancing, or drinkability to the water?
Based on your answers to these questions, you should have a good idea of what you need to implement to establish your 21-day supply.
YOUR TASK: Write a single-page plan to store, treat, and filter at least the water you need. Please don’t rely on turning on the tap and having clean, drinkable water flow through it. Millions of people will make that mistake. Ensure that your stored water is in the most structurally sound area of your home, not only because it will weigh a lot, but should your structure be compromised in a disaster, your water is less likely to be damaged.