Someone explain why people are stocking up on water? Unless your water tastes bad and bottled is all one drinks, I don’t understand how extra water would be needed during this virus.
Not for this occasion, but many people are on well water or pumped water. If the power goes out, you would run out of potable water. Or if the water gets infected. (You are better off with bleach...but whatever.)
So, yeah...they are getting water.
If you’re on muni water, maybe your treatment chemicals come from China.
Maybe the muni workers get sick & can’t come to work.
Maybe they’re under quarantine.
Maybe the power goes out for a long time & the power workers are sick or under quarantine.
Dunno...just hypothesizing here.
Some people only drink bottled water and are getting enough for 4-6 weeks instead of just 1 or 2?
I’ve been trying to figure out why people are buying cases of water as well. I don’t get it.
In most of Calif it’s just odd. We practically bottle the nations’ water under different brands. After earthquakes the beer and soda bottlers have always joined with the different brands to supply water. Every fire season they donate a ton of water to the first responders. You see a cart with tons of laundry stuff on top of cases of water, you know the person isn’t expecting a water shortage, right?!.
There was a guy who put up a video about no water in the Elk Grove, CA Costco a day or two ago. He went back the following day to do another video and there were five or six bays just stacked with water.
UPDATE - Mr. BP went to Costco for some cheese:
lots of block and tray cheese, no sliced bread but did have Hawaiian rolls and bags of dinner rolls. Fresh and canned fruit hit heavy, no bananas. Arrowhead water gone, Kirkland water low. 3 stacks of 2pk regular gallon milk left and 1/4 pallet of eggs left. Organic milk out, low on cottage cheese, some butter, no rice or beans (not that we would eat them), 5lb bags and 50lb bags of sugar low, but no medium sized bags. He didn’t go in the refrigerated produce/fruit area because too many people were already in there.
Cashier says all will be restocked tomorrow, they’ve been hit heavy every day for three days but can handle it, and the cashier is exhausted. Cashier wants to know if they’ll get Corona Holiday Pay? lol
If the water-treatment plant employees get sick, or stay home for fear of the virus, look out. Not likely but possible.
It helps, I suppose, if your water utility breaks down, and the replacement part needed is . . . wait for it . . . MADE IN CHINA!
Municipal water is potable because it is filtered and sanitized with chlorine compounds. Pumps, filters and chemical supplies require regular maintenance. If there is a breakdown is supplies for maintenance or trained, healthy staff to do the work, you might have a problem with your tap water.
Much of that tape water ends up in a sewage treatment plant. Maintenance, supplies and support staff apply there too.