Scenario #1 No Water Flows From Your Tap

5 years ago, in our Relief Society, I began a project with the aim to teach and inspire the sisters of our ward to be prepared in the event of an emergency scenario.

I am now going to re-visit those scenarios (I had posted most of them on an old blog:www.survivalmode.blog.com) which you can still go to.

The first scenario.....




Scenario #1

You have no usable water flowing from your faucets.



This can happen if the city’s water pipes break during a big earthquake, or something can just happen in your neighborhood that wipes out your water supply. Or somehow the city’s water supply can become harmful.

Do not take a shower in bad water, by the way.

We prepare for this scenario best by purchasing bottled water in the amount of one gallon a day per person in your family for 2 weeks. If this is too much, do as much as you can…for 4- 5 days, for example. I find that having water in one gallon containers such as you purchase at the grocery store is a very handy way to obtain, and to use emergency water.

Since you won’t be able to flush your toilets, you need to have on hand packages of those white 13 gallon kitchen trash bags. You lift the lid of your toilet and place an opened 13 gallon trash bag down in your toilet, letting the sides of the bag flow out over the rim of the toilet and then put the seat down and the toilet is ready to use. Then you tie up the bag of human waste and dispose of it somewhere. Go potty in comfort… No need to squat over a bucket!

Some folks like to store extra water in those big blue 55 gallon water barrels (which I wrote about in a separate post previous to this one.) You can use the water in your water heater, also.

One of the best things you can do is to have a water filtration system. I use the Seychelle system ...please see my post on that.