| If there was major flooding in your hometown, what | | | | water supplies would be gone almost immediately. |
| do you suppose your greatest need would be? Ironic | | | | Learning how to treat water that may not be safe is |
| as it seems, it just might be a shortage of water. | | | | a good idea for everyone. If your water access is |
| Floods have been known to swamp municipal water | | | | blocked for some reason, you can always boil water |
| treatment facilities to the point where it might be | | | | to make it safe enough to drink. Boiling kills harmful |
| weeks before public water can be turned back on. | | | | organisms that may be in the water. Unfortunately, |
| Have you ever thought about what you would do if | | | | losing both power and water is often the case when |
| this were to happen in your area? Most people don't | | | | a disaster hits, so boiling may or may not be an |
| think about it until a need arises, and then they are | | | | option. |
| taken offguard by not knowing what to do. There | | | | There are a couple of common household items you |
| are many different ways of treating water in times | | | | can use to purify water in emergency situations. You |
| of disaster, and you should educate yourself about | | | | can add small amounts of chlorine bleach or iodine to |
| emergency water treatments just in case. | | | | the water which will kill the contaminants. In addition, |
| No one expects a disaster to effect them; however, | | | | you will probably want to filter the water through a |
| you can see on the news that the unexpected | | | | clean, white cloth or a coffee filter to remove larger |
| happens around the world all the time. It could be | | | | particles of debris. It may take a couple of times |
| flooding, a tornado, a hurricane, a temporary | | | | through your makeshift filtering system to get the |
| blackout, a blizzard, or another type of emergency | | | | water looking as clean as you'd like. |
| situation that forces you into emergency mode and | | | | You'll find a number of these simple emergency |
| deprives you of the clean water you need to survive. | | | | water treatment techniques that you need to learn |
| It's easy to think that if something would happen you | | | | about in case something unexpected happens to you. |
| could just run out and buy some bottled water to | | | | These tricks can be life savers if nature decides to |
| tide you over, but if something like this were to | | | | intervene in your normal daily life. |
| happen, everyone would have the same idea, and | | | | |