Welcome Barracuda,<br><br>It sounds like some of your questions are oriented toward survivalism. It is likely that the members of this forum can be quite helpful to you in that area. However, you should note that this site's stated purpose is to duscuss survival issues, which is a little different than survivalism. In addition to your activity here at this forum, you may want to check out some of the numerous survivalist sites and discussion groups on the net. For example, there are probably entire sites that focus on nothing but long-term food and water storage, with diagrams and source lists. I personally found an excellent book at my public library covering that topic exhaustively. I can't remember the title or author, though (sorry). You may be able to get more useful information that way than in the limited space of a discussion group.<br><br>