| Have you ever stopped to think about what you | | | | have room to store them. However, there are |
| would do if there was some kind of natural | | | | smaller precautions you can take in order to be |
| emergency in your area that cut off your flow of | | | | able to provide clean, safe drinking water for your |
| clean water? Maybe the thought has crossed | | | | family under disaster conditions. |
| your mind because you've seen news reports | | | | One of the easiest types of emergency water |
| from other areas that have been struck with | | | | purification is using tablets such as those used by |
| tornadoes, earthquakes, or hurricanes or some | | | | the military. These tablets contain various |
| other type of emergency situation and heard | | | | chemicals and will coagulate sediment in the water |
| about the people waiting in long lines to receive | | | | so that it can be easily removed by straining the |
| bottled water trucked in from somewhere else. | | | | water through a clean cloth. In addition, the |
| Maybe you even have a couple of gallons of stale | | | | chemicals in these tablets kill the dangerous |
| bottled water tucked away in a corner of your | | | | protozoa, bacteria, and viruses that contaminate |
| basement in case of emergency, but how long do | | | | the water. As you may have heard, one of the |
| you think that supply would last, especially if you | | | | major problems in disaster areas can be diseases |
| have a family? In times of crisis, emergency | | | | spread as a result of drinking impure water. |
| water purification becomes a big issue and is | | | | Tablets come in packages of 30 for less than |
| something that you need to plan for long before | | | | $10, and each tablet will purify a little over a quart |
| anything ever happens. | | | | of drinking water. |
| The type of emergency water purification | | | | Your body needs between 2 and 3 quarts of |
| system you purchase will depend a lot on what | | | | water every day to keep your body systems |
| you can afford. You can buy simple filtering | | | | working properly. Therefore, it's critical that you |
| systems for as little as $10 or large, fancy | | | | have plans in place to provide safe, clean water |
| machines costing thousands of dollars. Obviously, | | | | for your family should the need arise. By looking |
| there are advantages to having a large system | | | | online you will find a number of different |
| that can put out adequate amounts of water for | | | | emergency water purification systems that will |
| drinking, cooking, and bathing, but most of us can't | | | | prove priceless if a disaster happens. |
| afford machines like that, and we probably don't | | | | |