I remember a flood in Ames Iowa a few years ago. power out and city water would.
There were near riots at the free water distribution sites.
It doesn’t take long.
God help us if water shortages ever happened, that’s when you get mass death in days. I actually experienced dehydration and massive thirst years ago when I use to run marathons in High school.
I went to this summer camp in upstate NY for runners and they had us run a marathon with absolutely no water or water stations and by the 15th mile hell kicked in and nobody was around. Unbelievable irresponsibility by the organizers of that camp as most of the runners there were kids in their teens, I was only 14 or 15.
And then I stopped sweating and then I could barely run and started feeling dizzy and faint, so this went on for hours, and all I thought about was water water water, absolute torture and I tell you, to this day, the most delicious water I ever had was from this water fountain when we finally got back to camp. That was 43 years ago 1978
Americans were quite different from Japanese. We were on the edge of the worst earthquake damaged areas of Kobe, Japan on 17 January 1995.
My daughter, all of 9 years old, was sent to a water distribution site with a poly jerry can and a pull wagon to wait her turn for water at a nearby elementary school while Dad was engaged in helping the other men in the neighborhood in shutting off gas lines and the like.
She came back with her water about 90 minutes later to report the only commotion was from the lined-up citizens who eventually coaxed an elderly lady to the front of the line.