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Prepper essentials: What to do if you run out of water when SHTF
disaster.news ^ | 5/11/22 | Zoey Sky

Posted on 05/15/2022 5:32:42 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

While stocking up on supplies before SHTF, preppers also need to figure out how to stock up enough water for drinking, cooking and other tasks.

Read on to learn what to do if you suddenly lose access to clean water. (h/t to RoguePreparedness.com)

If you live off-grid, you’re probably used to either having a well or hauling water from the nearest body of water. However, you should also learn how to deal with lack of access to water so you know how much to stock up on.

You need water for drinking to prevent dehydration, cooking, hygiene and cleaning. But do you know how much water you need for your whole family?

It’s near impossible to stock up on a year’s supply of water, but you can at least try to have enough water for one month. Even then, it will be a challenge to find enough space to store a month’s supply of water since it’s heavy and stored in bulky containers.

Before SHTF, stock up on two gallons of water per person and pets per day. How much water you store will also depend on the storage space you have.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: preppers; prepping; shtf; survival; water
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To: MattMusson

Creek..............


21 posted on 05/15/2022 5:56:32 PM PDT by Osage Orange (AS)
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To: CFW

My family knows I’m obsessed with having water. So, yes...I have gallons everywhere.

And I’m in the Northwest. And live on the Columbia River...lol.


22 posted on 05/15/2022 6:05:45 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.s )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The water heater has up to 50 gallons.


23 posted on 05/15/2022 6:12:50 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’m lucky. I have three wells, two good ones and one with bad water. I also have two creeks within half a mile of home.


24 posted on 05/15/2022 6:20:16 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: MattMusson
What about water storage in old GLASS 5 gallon bottles? Should it be tap and if so, how much bleach added? Or should it be distilled water instead with no bleach for long storage?

Yeah, I could look on the Internet but I'll ask here for starters. I have a few old GLASS 5 gallon Sparklett's water bottles.

I would imagine the old glass 5 gal bottles are in demand right now.. Swap meets are a good place to find those. Better to keep for LONG storage in GLASS rather than PLASTIC.

25 posted on 05/15/2022 6:23:42 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

How do you safely treat chlorinated swimming pool water?


26 posted on 05/15/2022 6:24:27 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: MattMusson

And run it thru a sand filter, then thru a Big Berkey. And have some sodium hypochlorite pool shock to make clean, fresh bleach.


27 posted on 05/15/2022 6:25:07 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

That reminded me : I have an old coke bottle for fountain syrup. I’ll bet it holds 20 gallons. Just need to rinse it out ahead of time.


28 posted on 05/15/2022 6:26:42 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: allwrong57

***just careful to drink upstream from the horses.***

I had a friend on a hunting trip to Colorado. He drank out of the water coming from a small dammed up creek. He was sick for days!


29 posted on 05/15/2022 6:28:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I have a well and a trout stream in my back yard.

I think I will be OK.


30 posted on 05/15/2022 6:32:26 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Biosand filter.


31 posted on 05/15/2022 6:32:55 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Run out of water = you die


32 posted on 05/15/2022 6:34:41 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: refermech

Uhm, but this is saying there is no water at the store. So what do you do?

I say have hand pump well drilled if your country.
Or stock up mason jars of water in your basement. I have those large plastic water containers and after a few years they leak.


33 posted on 05/15/2022 6:35:10 PM PDT by winterystorm
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To: Sarcazmo

Make sure to boil your dihydrogen monoxide to fully reconstitute you dehydrated water. Nothing is worse then dry water.


34 posted on 05/15/2022 6:35:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
easy, i’ll just go to the border and share the water the government is providing for free to the illegal aliens!

Pick up some pallets of baby formula while you're at it.
35 posted on 05/15/2022 6:37:04 PM PDT by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: CFW

I have a variable speed well pump that WILL operate off of a 1500-watt inverter connected to a deep-cycle marine battery. It’s a 240V pump, but I have a step-up transformer.

This pump pulls about 800W with one faucet on. This setup cost about $1200 more than a fixed-speed pump—which usually needs a fairly large (5000kW?) generator just to handle the huge startup surge they have.


36 posted on 05/15/2022 6:37:07 PM PDT by brianl703
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Make sure you have a backup to pump said water from the wells.


37 posted on 05/15/2022 6:37:48 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: brianl703

5kW not 5000kW!


38 posted on 05/15/2022 6:38:26 PM PDT by brianl703
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Lifestraw
39 posted on 05/15/2022 6:38:43 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.


40 posted on 05/15/2022 6:40:14 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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