Subject: Water
storage
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:52:05 -0400
From: Paul Robichaux
To: Bob Thompson
Good points on the water storage issue, Bob. It’s hard to keep a
year’s supply of water for a family of 5, but we’re trying
to build ours up. Terrorist attack may seem unlikely, but it can
happen; more likely, your readers will run into issues with local
contamination of their water supplies by cryptosporidium or other pesky
microorganisms.
Along those lines, in addition to our stored water we have a Katadyn
filtering unit, like the kind you’d take backpacking. It’s
small and portable, and it will filter out just about every potentially
harmful beastie you’ll encounter in North America. Well worth the
$85 or so.
Also, I would point out that, whatever your religious beliefs, the LDS
Church has some excellent resources for food and water storage. See
http://www.providentliving.org
for a good deal of information, or
http://www.providentliving.com
(note the different TLD) for one of the many emergency-prep businesses
run by church members.
Cheers,
-Paul