OK, so what does the professor suggest other than give him money to study the problem?
I don’t think I’ll wring my hands or worry too much about this.
There seems to be a common theme that revolves around disaster phenomena — interruption of water supply.
Stock up one gallon of water per person, per day — for however many days it will take for water service to be restored.
How many days is that? No way of knowing. Better to have water stored and not need it than to need water and not have it.
Yup.
"We all are gonna die! Or Maybe not!" Whatever.