In a City If There's A Deadly Pandemic How Long Do You Have Till Water Is Shut Off inc Toilet Water

The most logical answer here is............ THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY TO KNOW.

 

Wow Thanks I owe you bigtime on this. I did not consider or even known that Waste Treatment Plants exists. I thought that the water supply and toilets just have to do with the grid- when they go out no more water to flush. Special request if you don't mind, If there's a deadly pandemic and the grid goes down (I should have worded my question this way,) and waste treatment plants go down, how long would you guess best case and worst case scenario, you can no longer use toilets after the pandemic officially starts? Thank You.

 

Yes, but you can at least have a general range to plan accordingly,

 

Perhaps the failure of sanitation service and waste water drainage is the root cause of the pandemic (colera, typhoid anyone?) In which case, by the time the number of pandemic cases reaches a critical mass before Medical / health disease control services responds to the emergency...folks will already be behind the eight ball.

Best assume that grid water supplies may be cut off without notice, and may not necessarily resume immediately, depending on the nature of the outages, and the ability of service providers to get their infrastructure working again.

 

I realize that. That's what I'm asking. If I know there would be just for a hypothetical example, 3 months of function, I'd factor that into the bottled water I would have in my residence, or weigh that against getting the hell out of where I am and taking my chances on nowheresland!

 

Get a shovel , dig a hole , Make an outhouse ! No problem !! , & no water neeeded, Now find the A$$ wipe !!

Sloth

 

Just out of curiosity, as you guys have read a lot more than I have on these kind of subjects and you don't seem to like/agree on speculation, do any Survival type books offer, rightly or wrong, timelines? If not, then the entrepreneur in me sees an opening in the market for a book that does for the layman.

 

AZZ WIPE!!!

 

Just a suggestion....use a different one for nose picking....

 

Depending on location sewer systems will not continue to function .
If the grid is down ,pumping stations that lift sewage water to sanitation stations will be down as well.
I have worked on these pumps and back ups are necessary and in place so that regular service can be maintained .but if the grid is down there is no back up for that.
This also means that with out those pumps operational sewage will begin backing up , especially those in a valley or flat land .

 

Another reason to have your own well and septic.
Not beholden to the government to provide my water .. and the monthly (quarterly) fee for it.
Granted, a well and septic are not free of costs but they also can't be cut off my the municipality because they have an issue with their water treatment facilities (potable and sewage) or due to non-payment of a government fee.

 

I wish I had!

 

I have become a city dweller. I now rely on city resources for water, sewage etc..the kids and I gather wool, day dream or play what if a lot, that is how we are learning. We have discussed this scenario, are not 100% on it but gather ideas steadily. We do have water stored in jugs but we also have a large amount of storage totes. Depending on the time of the year a pandemic hits, we could be rationing water or we could be doing fine. Making use of the weather is key. Monsoon rains, snow etc. We plan on gathering water that falls freely from the sky. The easiest is to cover the patio with totes but that is minimal water caught. The idea of tapping into the gutter system from the apartment roof and funneling the water into our area is what we would like to do. Cut the nearest downspout, put an elbow and drain pipe leading into totes/water bins. For snow the idea was proposed to lay a tarp out, collect the snow that way. The idea is to stay inside avoiding others as much as we could.

These are just some of the ideas that we came up with. It has only been a few months that we have lived in a city setting. It has been a learning experience and we are in this to win. The city utilities will not stay on long. Once the workers start getting sick, the shortage of workers will stop the utilities.

 

Make a Grey water septic , many old did & have that tank pump-able for irrigation .
Worked on a few .

Sloth