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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scripts who wrote (513)	12/6/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 888

Glad to see the thread is active again. I posted the following information to SI y2k impact on stock market and society last week or so. The American Water Works Association released the results on a voluntary year 2000 preparedness survey at awwa.org Pay close attention to questions 4, 7 and 8. With regards to question 8 notice that only 30% of water utes with more than 1 million service connections (large cities) have contingency plans for external failures (I'm reading that as electric power failure.) This is why the public health consequences of this situation keep me tossing and turning at night. Sometime this coming week the major trade association for the sewage treatment industry should post results from a similar survey. I spoke to the web mistress who said her organization membership accounts for approximately 80% of sewage waste treatment providers. We will then have then a "picture" of what reliable water service may look like. Frankly, if sewage waste treatment providers aren't better prepared for rollover than the water providers we will have a "mess" on our hands (feet?--pun fully intended.) People may be able to stay in their homes without electric service or water service (provided they have some stored for emergency use.) It will be difficult and unwise to inhabit your home if it is filling up with raw sewage. Major population dislocation could occur in very short order. An argument could be made that if there is no water then no flushing perhaps. However, rainfall could stress a non-functioning system to back-up among other reasons I'm certain. When sewage info posts SI will be the first to know. "flatsville"