No water for 4 days=widespread deaths. This article further degrades the absurd advice given here by several anti-preparedness non-experts to plan on obtaining their life or death water supply (for days, weeks, months..indefinately) via a continual caravan in the dead of winter until.....to and from some lake or reservoir! Hilarious! Hilarious but dangerous and potentially very deadly (advice) !
<<<How Much Water Does an American Family Use? A Lot.
dailynews.yahoo.com.
The hot summer is forcing states to impose water use restrictions. This report is useful because it shows how much water we use.
Most of it is used to water our lawns. That will stop in winter.
If water is in short supply, lawns will die next summer. Be ready to adopt square foot gardening, as one book calls it. You can grow a lot of vegetables in boxes, even window boxes.
This is from YAHOO! (July 30).
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. . . The American Water Works Association says:
+ The average household uses 350 gallons of water a day.
+ Americans drink one billion glasses of water a day.
+ About 65 percent of residential water is used outside the home.
+ The average 1/4 acre lawn can use over 3,000 gallons of water a week.
+ One inch of rainfall over a one acre lot produces 2,400 gallons of water.
The trade group said homeowners can cut indoor water use by 30 percent by taking simple conservation steps such as using washing machines and dishwashers only when full, not running faucets while brushing teeth and reducing the use of garbage disposals.
States with water restrictions are: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
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