Tip #6:  Prioritize Water And Liquids

 

There is a whole chapter on this coming up.  But having sufficient liquids is so essential it makes sense to emphasize it here as well.  In almost all emergency relief situations, the main concern is for clean water.  Water is vital for anyone with injuries or who needs medical care. 

 

As everyone knows, humans cannot survive long without water. Without a supply water your chances of survival are limited.  Furthermore, your drinking water needs to be clean. 

 

But we don't need water only to drink.  It is also used for washing ourselves, our clothes, our cooking utensils and our homes.  If you stop to think about how much water your family needs over the course of 12 months, you will start to appreciate the scale of the problem. 

 

The real problem is that we never need to stop and imagine it.  Running water delivered, on demand, to our homes whenever we need it, has become the norm.  We take it for granted.  For preppers, anything that modern society takes for granted, should cause us to stop and think.  In an emergency, is is those things that seem so commonplace and normal that are likely to cause the biggest danger by their disappearance.