Government emergency website

[Toddy]

Local to me there's been an incident where groundworkers have damaged the main water supply- the schools had to close due to no water, and the residents living within a 2 mile radius had to collect bottled water from the leisure centre where they set up a 'hub'.
This did take a few hours to get up and running and the water was out for a few days.

Not everyone has the ability or knowledge to purify water for consumption.
If it gets to the point where we can't filter water due to some other reason then unfortunately it will be a grave situation which a lot of us are unable to prepare for short of owning a bunker

Did anyone go thirsty ? Did anyone have 'no' water ?

We live in a civilized country, none of us lives so remote that there is no way to get supplies as necessary.

It's scale again. Tide you over for a little while, and it'll be fine.
Like power cuts

 

[Laurentius]

Did anyone go thirsty ? Did anyone have 'no' water ?

We live in a civilized country, none of us lives so remote that there is no way to get supplies as necessary.

It's scale again. Tide you over for a little while, and it'll be fine.
Like power cuts

Back in the day there was pop for the kids and beer for the adults, not a problem

 

[Kadushu]

An extra header tank or 2 in the loft might be the neatest solution for extra water storage, with all necessary allowances for the extra weight of course.

 

[Pattree]

25 litre plastic drums @ £1.50.
Ex deionised water.
Brum is pretty central to UK.

……… Well perhaps not!
More central to England.

 

[Toddy]

An extra header tank or 2 in the loft might be the neatest solution for extra water storage, with all necessary allowances for the extra weight of course.

We had just that; but the modern combi-boiler no longer required such storage, and the tanks were removed....cleared a lot of useable space in the loft, but I did sort of regret the lack of a cistern of clean water.

 

[oldtimer]

I have a 400 litre water butt on my vegetable patch which I replenish from time to time with tap water using a hose from the house. Its main function is to provide a reserve supply of water for the plants in times of hose pipe bans, but it's a comfort to have it there for drinking water should the need arise. Our neighbour has a working well, which the deeds of our house state that we have a right to use. I also keep about 50 litres of drinking water in plastic bottles in the shed. I'm not paranoid, just a Thames Water customer!

 

[Jared]

Local to me there's been an incident where groundworkers have damaged the main water supply- the schools had to close due to no water, and the residents living within a 2 mile radius had to collect bottled water from the leisure centre where they set up a 'hub'.
This did take a few hours to get up and running and the water was out for a few days.

Not everyone has the ability or knowledge to purify water for consumption.
If it gets to the point where we can't filter water due to some other reason then unfortunately it will be a grave situation which a lot of us are unable to prepare for short of owning a bunker

Sounds familar. Some of the homes nearby the damaged pipe were under 5ft of water.
Mother's house didn't have water, so I bought some bottled water at the big Tescos. Surprisingly saw no one else buying any, and they had paletes full out on the shop floor.

 

[Decacraft]

Sounds familar. Some of the homes nearby the damaged pipe were under 5ft of water.
Mother's house didn't have water, so I bought some bottled water at the big Tescos. Surprisingly saw no one else buying any, and they had paletes full out on the shop floor.

Trelewis by anychance?

 

[Jared]

Trelewis by anychance?

Ah no, this was last May in Cardiff.

 

[Pattree]

Re: Water Storage.
I’ve just picked up 10 x 25L water drums. (as above). Clean inside and only held deionised water. Been in storage a while.

They are reasonably heavy weight plastic and can stack when full.
They aren’t worth posting but if anyone going to the CCS camp in Newark would like one or could get one to someone else who does I could bring a few.

I’ve never driven round the warren below spaghetti junction before. It’s quite fun.

 

[TeeDee]

As water storage seems to be the theme at the moment probably worth adding a small segment into Bleach as a potential purifier.

How to Disinfect and Purify Drinking Water with Bleach | Clorox®

Need to know how to disinfect and purify drinking water with bleach? Find out how much bleach to add to drinking water to safely sanitize it.

www.clorox.com

Treat water​

Add 25 drops or ¼ teaspoon of Clorox® Disinfecting Bleach to 1.75 gallons of water (4 drops to 1 quart). Stir thoroughly.

 

[Jared]

Oasis do various sizes of water purification tabs for 1L, 5L, 10L, 20L.

The 167mg (for 20L) tablets are cheap.

Eg. https://evaq8.co.uk/Water-Purificat...cation-tablets-167mg-nadcc-x-100-tablets.html

 

[TeeDee]

Bump to this older thread as seems relevant to this one and the governments subtle directive.

Limited Canned Goods.

Canned goods - the regular cylinder sized cans that supermarkets store renowned for their long stable storage shelf life are a staple of most of our kitchen cupboard. They cover a multitude of food types and their fungible size make storage easy to pack and store. BUT if you could only store...

bushcraftuk.com