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Water purification? Again I can do a day without water and when I’m home I can boil it on my MSR stove. Tap water is widely available in NYC. And if it’s not, every store, gas station has some. Every hospital, ambulance has some. You will never be that thirsty that you would have to purify your own water.


Food for thought about water:

Last year, while living in a major suburb of Chicago, a "boil order" was issued by the city. The water supply became contaminated with E. coli.

All water was unsafe for almost three weeks - three weeks. All water was contaminated. Everything was affected: drinking water, cooking, washing dishes, washing clothes, taking showers, brushing your teeth.

Hospitals scrambled, restaurants closed down, people panicked. There was a mad rush for bottled water - people were going in and wiping out store shelves buying 20, 30, 50 gallons of water at a time. Stores ran out - in a matter of hours.

Emergency shipments of water were being sent in on 18 wheel trucks. The stores didn't even bring the water inside. They were selling pallets of water right off of the trucks. And they ran out - every shipment, everyday.

And nobody knew how long it was going to last.

So, needless to say it was a huge eye opener.


I called the nice people at Katadyn/PUR during the crisis and they were extremely helpful. Here are a few of my safeguards: