News organizations are all a flutter at tenacious busy body Jean Hill’s successful campaign to ban bottled water from Concord, Massachusetts. What a victory for the Earth!

It’s also a death sentence for the people of Concord if disaster strikes.

No one can store all the water they need, but if you don’t have at least a couple of weeks worth of drinking water squared away you will die in the event of a long term disaster. You can live only three days without water, and having seen the government’s belated responses to Katrina and the Gulf oil spill should solidify in your mind that help after a large scale disruption or disaster is often more than three days away.

But what about tap water? Jean Hill has said there’s nothing wrong with drinking water out the faucet and I frankly concur. All you “but Fluoride controls minds!!!” people do bath in the same water you shun after all, or drink it in coffee and tea so obviously I’m not of the belief that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the water. It’s the deliver system that’s at play here.

Many preppers worry about nation wide grid outages in the event of an EMP or solar storm, or disruption of transportation in an oil crisis. In both these situations water will stop running or be unsafe to drink even if it does. Water stations use electricity, if the grid goes down the pumping stations go down too. Any disaster, natural or man made, that takes out electricity will stop water flowing to cities. People with wells and hand pumps may be fine, but people who live in a town where they have no stored water will be at the mercy of  the slow responding government.

But even if we talk about a situation where electricity is available but transportation is disrupted, like an oil shortage, clean water would be at risk. Your tap water is only safe to bath in because trucks deliver chemicals to pumping stations to make it safe. At best, the reservoir you’re town is getting water from is filled with old cars, discarded appliances and dead bodies. I recently republished a 2006 white paper from the American Trucking Association which maintains that if trucking was curtailed for just two weeks the entire nations water supply would be stressed, and after a month water would not be safe to use without boiling.

This sort of data is often used by the Jean Hills of the world to “prove” the need to do something, but if you’re thinking realistically what it means is that you need to be prepared to provide safe water for yourself and your family for drinking, but also for bathing, cooking and even flushing toilets (though that water doesn’t need to be clean) and watering your survival garden. Bottled water is the most economical and safest way for people to be prepared.

Filters are great now, and everyone should have some sort of low tech filtration system to treat water gathered from the wild or rain barrels in long term situations, but not having bottled water in the house, even if you don’t drink it, is irresponsible and short sighted.

I bring this up not because the madness in Concord matters to most of us, but because many cities are moving in this direction and many more people impose these sorts of bans on themselves and their families in order to “go green.” But what will these people do when the water’s been out for four days and FEMA still hasn’t showed up?

I store a few weeks worth of water in the form of flats purchased from Costco, which are rotated out because we happen to drink a lot of water. I also have gallon jugs filled with tap water and treated with bleach for bathing if the water stops, and scouted the area for streams where I can collect water to be treated. The Jean Hills of the world hope that when they need it water will just magically flow from a faucet, and her green pretensions are going to put everyone in Concord at risk if something happens.

h/t Zionist Anti-Communist