If you’re like most Americans, you take your drinking water for granted. All our lives we’ve managed to switch on the tap and receive all of the fresh water we’d like. Most of us haven’t ever been faced with a lack of sufficient water, and we all consider it one of the unalienable rights we are promised by our country. what if something happened that cut off your supply of drinking water? What would you do if all of a sudden, there was not tap water available? Following Hurricane Katrina and the issues with poisoned water that so many folk faced, many Americans are making a choice to buy some kind of portable water purification system to help their families thru times of emergency.

When I was a little child in Cedar rapids, IA, our drinking water came from the Cedar River. When one of the towns north of the city started contaminating the river, our town water plant was no longer able to disinfect the water enough to make it safe for drinking. For months, my mother was forced to either boil all of the water she wished to use, or to go stand in lines at certain places around the city where she could get fresh water. Back then, no one had such a thing as a portable water purification system, and water changed into a very dear commodity.

So back to the original questions. Are you prepared in case an emergency scenario should befall your family? If not, it’s time for you to start considering what you would do if disaster struck and left you without water. Of course , the human body can only last 2 days without water. That’s the reason why people in third world countries continue to drink the poisoned water in rivers and streams. Their bodies demand it, even though it frequently makes them really sick. You’ll think you’d never drink anything like they do, but if your body was dying of thirst, you’d find yourself willing to drink just about anything.

Having a portable water system of some type is a wise call. Many systems operate using solar energy, so they can be operated in occassions of power outages which are the times when you’ll need them most. Devices can be as straightforward as cups with filters in them that strain pollutants out of the water before you drink it. Models such as the large Berkey gravity-feed system can supply you with 3.5 gallons of fresh water an hour and are available for fair costs. In fact, with some form of movable filtering system available in all price ranges, there is no reason for any one to be unready when an emergency scenario arises.