>>>And how many scenes have you seen where someone has built a debris fire and boiled a big pot of water so that they -- and those around them -- could have a sterilized drink?>>>
You can't boil some things out of water. YOU go ahead and drink that water that has industrial waste in it. I'll pass.
Tunnel vision again.
No need to use the water that flowed in through the dikes,. NOLA has just been through a hurricane. There is rain water that has collected in numerous places. And there are thousands of toilet tanks still holding clean city water. (Note: I said "tanks" not "toilets".)
Failing that, contaminants in the flood water are so diluted that if you dip below the surface, (to avoid floating petrochems) drinking enough of it (thoroughly boiled, of course) to prevent dehydration is better than death. Squeamisness is not a survival trait.
It doesn't take much dehydration to begin to derange a human's mental processes. Go ahead and dehydrate -- and become incapacitated -- and die -- of dehydration...waiting for somone else to serve you a drink.
I, for one, will take care of myself -- and others around me -- and survive. You, OTOH, would be begging for a Darwin Award.
Here's your epitaph:
"Bush didn't bring me a drink."
Unfortunately, yours might not be the only such tombstone...