James:
This is an excerpt from a report in The Drudge Report on 7/23/07:
“Police at an emergency services briefing in Gloucester said the water treatment works could be out of action for at least a week – and possibly two before it would be fully operative again.
This would have serious implications for water supply in the Gloucester, Didsbury and Cheltenham areas, they warned. In Gloucestershire, members of the armed forces have been taking 600 water tanks into the area while 22 miles of temporary mains are put in place to enable water to be pumped from outside the county.”
[There were also these reports: Looting, panic buying – and a water shortage, and Official: Worst Floods In Modern History]
And this is my observation:
So, if these folks have to carry water from the tanker to their homes, I wonder if they have anything besides a scrub bucket to carry it in? And at one gallon per person per day minimum, do they realize how much weight they are going to be carrying? [As recently discussed in SurvivalBlog.] I sure hope that SurvivalBlog readers get the message! – Robert B.