When I look out of the window of our home, I honestly don’t see a lack of water. It’s everywhere. However, received wisdom says that in a SHTF grid down situation, there will be a lack of water. We can only survive 3 days without water so stock up they say. Although we do have ‘hosepipe bans’ in high summer, a general drought is rare.
if we have any kind of breakdown e.g. EMP attack or computer war, then the electrical or control systems for our water could be affected.
So water storage and filtration are my first priority.
I’ve looked at so-called 50-gallon (US) drums, around 220 litres but accessing the water seems to be problematical. I’m currently looking at a pair of Slimline 100-litre rain butts which have little taps. These are not ideal but I guess it’s a start. At £35 each, it’s not too expensive and I could increase these each month. I’m just leaving it for a few more days.
Meantime, as a stop gap i’ve purchased 4 x 25l plastic Jerry Cans which gives me 100 litres as a starter.
During my last prepping iteration, I bought a British Berkefeld unit (A version of the US Berkey) which is a water filter. I originally bought it with two filters, tested it, and then stored it away. I decided to buy two more filters.
The rationale is to store water in the butts, or collected rainwater, sterilize it with some pool shock, and then extract a gallon or two and filter it. That should do the trick
