- 1 year
Good, this should have always been the norm. You literally cannot predict disaster, so you should always have something available just in case.
It should also include things like jugs of non-potable water in addition to jugs of potable water. The non-potable water can be used for things like flushing toilets a commonly overlooked but important aspect of losing water access.
- 1 year
If you have a bathtub, an easy way is just to fill that and use it for flushing the toilet. I think my family did that for a week after Katrina.
- 1 year
Unfortunately, not really. I only thought of this one due to how many times I’ve had to deal with not having water and needing to flush my poos ha.
- blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish1 year
Why does it need to be non-potable? Or do you just mean to keep those functions in mind?
- moody@lemmings.worldEnglish1 year
It’s not that it specifically needs to be non-potable, just that you shouldn’t waste drinking/cooking to wash yourself and flush toilets when you don’t know how long issues can last.
Rain water and eavestrough runoff water is fine for flushing and cleaning, and it doesn’t need to be kept in food-safe containers.
- blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish1 year
Oh I see, collect it when you can, because a surplus of water is better than just having water for drinking. This makes sense. I think people often forget how much water we use on a daily basis.
- moody@lemmings.worldEnglish1 year
Basically, yeah. You can also water your plants with stuff that you wouldn’t drink too, instead of letting them die because of an emergency happening.
- 1 year
It doesn’t need to be non-potable, but it seems wasteful (in my opinion) to use potable water for flushing toilets.
- 1 year
Though that begs the question if it isn’t wasteful to save non-potable water when you could save potable water instead.
- qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
A person could have containers they wouldn’t drink out of but can hold liquid just fine.
1 yearRookie numbers. The Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe recommends to have supplies for two weeks on hand.
In totally unrelated news: Two weeks is also the projected timeframe it would take for a civil war like state to emerge if order can’t be established after a country wide emergency.
- Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
72 hours? I haven’t even left my house for the last two weeks simply because I’m lazy and don’t like shopping every day.
