Why? I remember reading the same stuff in the run up to Y2K. A loss of electronics will not stop the rain or dry up lakes and streams. If the taps turn off, most people will figure out how to suck up some liquids. Even Las Vegas has swimming pools.
How long can a city live on swimming pool water, if a grid attack is sustained with follow up attacks, and the power is out for weeks or months?
What happens to the population of that city in the meantime? Consider that the power will also be out in the suburbs and rural areas.
Assault on California Power Station Raises Alarm on Potential for Terrorism
April Sniper Attack Knocked Out Substation, Raises Concern for Country’s Power Grid
February 5, 2014
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304851104579359141941621778
Just for instance: How many “Iranian students” attending our universities are actually military officers with grid attack contingency plans? We don’t know? Neither does the FBI.
” most people” are clueless about the rule of 3’s
3 minutes without air
3 hours without shelter
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
( 3 months without hope)
The seniors, the home bound, children - all vulnerable in a chaotic breakdown
Ever heard the phrase “ we are 9 meals away from anachy”?
Shut down the Ebt system and your stores are under siege by looters within 3 days
“If the taps turn off, most people will figure out how to suck up some liquids”
Actually, the lack of sewage treatment and associated pumps and other elements will be the bigger concern. Disease spreads quickly when sanitation stops. Cities would become uninhabitable quickly if no provisions were taken to make sure sewage pumps still work in the event of an EMP or any other protracted power outage.
Go to Amazon and order the book One Second After by Forstchen. It is a fictional account of an EMP attack on the US. A family and town in North Carolina is the focus of the story but it is an eye-opener. The loss of our electrical infrastructure causes wide-spread problems. Think of a diabetic who can no longer get insulin...that is just a small tragedy.
I have a creek running by my house, game in the woods and the ability to plant a garden. Granted until a crop came in your subsistence would be limited to what you had on hand to eat and what game you can kill. But once you get a crop in and begin canning and get a smoke house and meat house into operation you can make it. And one burst taking out everything, not quite buying it?
actually the problem is not finding water - the problem is finding clean water- or sanitizing unclean water