Red Cross suggests that people stockpile water
The Red Cross today has recommended that Atlanta families try to set aside two weeks worth of water for each member of their family, at a rate of a gallon per day — or 14 gallons per person. One gallon per day is what the organization says is the minimum that a person needs for drinking, food preparation and personal hygiene.
They suggest buying commercially packaged water as to not consume water from our dwindling supply.
Personally I think this is a bit premature, but it’s good to be thinking about. We likely have at least 20 weeks worth of water left, and that amount should go up higher if the Corps reduce the flow from Lanier — which appears likely to happen. I wouldn’t run out and buy a bunch of water yet, but it might be worth considering early next year.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Any thoughts on how to best store water? We had a couple of gallon jugs in our garage for awhile. Each of them sprung a leak at some point… the cheap plastic gallon jugs don’t seem to be that good for long term storage.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Also, in light of Pepsi’s Aquafina actually being filtered tap water, I’m wondering if Coke uses tap water for their local bottle plants, and if there are any brands of bottle water we should may stay away from because they use our drinking water anyway.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
to mike,
try acquiring those water bottles the big hard thick plastic ones for a water cooler office setup. i have a water cooler at home. it will store water for quite awhile safely and leak free. it is typically “filtered” tap water though.
yes coke’s dasani is from “filtered” tap water. pretty much all bottled waters originally came from a city or municipality tap source from somewhere. with the exception of “exotics” like evian and the like…most brands will be from the local water system(s) in the region you live in. in this case…the s.e. usa.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
You might try using empty soda bottles, the plastic is much stronger than the traditional milk jugs. We had a water main problem last year and managed to fill a few before they turned the water off. They have been sitting in our garage for all this time with no problems.
November 5th, 2007 at 4:14 am
So should we not buy water that are bottled around this region? What are they and how would others know what NOT to buy?
Also, let’s encourage responsible disposal of these water bottles by recycling. 60,000,000 (yes, that’s 60 million!) plastic bottles are thrown away in the US PER DAY and most end up in land fills. Unbelievable figure.