Should people outside of WV begin hoarding bottled water

[Renew Deal]

Before shortages and price hikes begin?

[sammytko]

1. I keep gallon jugs of water for emergency use

We didn't have water for a few days a couple of summers ago. Hoard the gallon jugs!

[tazkcmo]

6. Exactly

WE should all do it as a matter of emergency preparedness. I don't care for the use of the word hoarding in this case though. We should all stock a minimum of 72 hours worth of water, food and what ever else you can imagine needing in a 72 hour time span.

[Tanuki]

2. Why not just drink what comes out of your tap

if you live where it's safe to do so? Seems like a trivial sacrifice to make for a relatively short period of time to free up a resource for the less fortunate who actually need it.

[randome]

3. Right on!

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[Renew Deal]

4. That is

The correct answer, but I'm curious if anyone has a different view.

[NutmegYankee]

5. It depends on your tap.

If you live on a well with hard water and require a water softening system, you may not be able to drink it if you are on a sodium restricted diet. That's because water softening works by swapping the calcium atoms with sodium atoms, which forms minerals that don't produce scale. Others just have wells that taste awful such as my friend the next town up.

I have my water supplied by a small rural utility company, which pumps from 10 wells and then treats the water at the federal minimum for chlorine and then supplies it to us. It has Roughly 700 customers.

[avebury]

7. I could drink the tap water when I lived in

Maine. I have never been able to adapt to the tap water in Oklahoma so I only drink bottled water. I don't know what people will do down the road as the greed of the wealthy push bad environmental business decisions of the rest of us and our ground water also becomes contaminated. Hopefully incidents like this will be a wake up call to the rest of the country to take a better look at what is going on in everyone's backyard.

[sammytko]

14. You never know when your water supply is going to go out

Our city water pumps failed and we had no water for almost three days.

The big chain grocery store delivered water to our town and then the Red Cross stepped in also. We had to take buckets, containers etc just to have water to flush.

I've always kept baby wipes on hand for emergency cleaning because that was what we used when I was in the military and out in the field for days at a time.

I also keep candles, matches, dehydrated food and a first aid kit. Our vehicles always have gas in them and I keep cash on hand too. Lots of pet food also.

Its just part of being prepared.

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. This.

The opposite is true. People outside of the area should NOT buy it so supplies can go where it's needed.

[ProgressSaves]

16. Makes my coffee taste like garbage.

I'll stick with the bottled water.

[JNelson6563]

9. No.

I don't buy bottled water. What a waste! I know some people have wells with awful water so I would probably buy water in that case but otherwise, no.

I am fortunate enough to live in northern MI where we have good water and lots of it.

Julie

[Sunlei]

10. be interesting to send a sample of your tap water to an independent lab, see whats in there.

I don't buy bottled water. What has worked well for me is a couple of gallons in my freezer. Keeps foods cold if there is no power. If you're in a hot climate with no power, sure is nice to have ice cold water to drink.

[CFLDem]

11. If you're downstream, yes.

When it comes to having access to clean water, everyone is equally needy.

If not, no, but it's not a bad idea to keep a case around for emergencies.

[blue neen]

12. No, but I'd like to take some water to the people in WV,

where they really need it.

[Coyotl]

13. Yeah, put water in a bottle and watch it turn into poisonous bacterial soup. Grrreat idea!

Most people don't have a safe water bottling plant at home.