Drinking Water Continuity

A person can only last three days without drinking water.  This makes water a precious resource to protect in an emergency.  For those people with a Copper / Oxygen sanitation system in their swimming pools, you're way ahead of the game. That water is safe to drink.

I recently chatted with a resident of Ashville, North Carolina who told me her family's story with Hurricane Helene.  I'll call her Tammy to protect her anonymity. They were out of water for over 2-months and had to drive into town regularly to obtain fresh water from the National Guard Armory who was handing-out large jugs of water.

Let's portray a different scenario and see if this resonates with you.  Say Tammy has a Copper / Oxygen swimming pool and also purchased a 1000-gallon plastic cistern from her local hardware store, farm supply store, or equivalent.  When Tammy hears that a hurricane or other natural disaster might hit her home, she pumps water out of her pool into her cistern.  The average pool pump will move 30 gallons per minute, so Tammy can fill her Cistern in approximately 35 minutes.  It is highly likely that a storm will dump lots of debris into a swimming pool, thus harming it's potability, but Tammy has fresh water stored before the storm.  If the family conserves this and consumes 10-gallons per day, they have 100 days of supply.

If you want to learn more about preparing drinking water for a natural disaster, here's an article I recommend you read.