Emergency Water Supplies
In the event of an emergency water is perhaps the most critically needed asset.
If the immense scale of human suffering following Hurricane Katrina underscores one thing, it’s the importance of having on hand an adequate supply of water and food that is long lasting and portable and that offers the biggest nutritional bang for the buck.
Safe drinking water supply is the paramount concern.
While health people can last a week or, in some cases, even 10 days without water, less healthy people may succumb after only a few days – the reason, a drinkable water supply, typically in the form of bottled water, should be considered the top priority item before, during and immediately following a disaster.
Healthy people even in relatively cool conditions need about 2 quarts of water a day to survive – even more under warm conditions, which precisely what people were contending with along the Gulf Coast.
That may not seem like a lot to someone with running water, but it amounts to a lot in cases where the water has to be transported in by truck.