I have a Katadyn water filter and a Thermette, and I don’t live near salt water and there is a very big fresh water (as fresh as lake Erie gets) lake 3-miles north of me and lots of rivers everyplace. There is a small stream that is 10-feet wide within 2-min walk.

I don’t really worry about finding water to drink or clean with. I feel for where I live I could go on filtering & boiling water for a long time to fill my needs.

I have tent camped for 40-years, this has lent itself to allow me to acquire a lot of items (too many items?) and skills to see me through problems. Disruption of utilities or even food delivery is not a big problem as long as it’s not well known by neighbors that would see themselves as having a right to what I have put away.



If you live in a place without a large water source a kit with some supplies and a few gallons of water (I would guess 15-gal per person for food & drinking only) would be good till help would come. It would be good to be able to filter or boil water to purify it. But most don’t think of this or evne want to learn about it.

I don’t think most prepare for anything like this at all. We have always had the government there to step up to help people for so long it’s now expected to be there within hours or at the most a few days. And this does work for most people, Katrina is a good example.