Water usage with illness.

[Mortblanc]

I fear that the situation Pete is describing is one where there is no return to past technology as a solution. Using a brace and bit instead of a power drill is one thing, and making it rain another.

Digging a well in the back garden is not possible for most in the world of today, in order to prepare for an apocalyptic world of tomorrow scenerio.

Most people are pushing the council rules to have water butts in their own gardens.

Not to mention where all that water will wind up??? What goes in must come out and in the case of sickness such as Pete visualizes it will come out in some very unpleasant ways and in less than manageable condition.

If your mains water is out your mains sewer is probably also out. What to do with 500 liters of infected liquid crap???? Do you really want that in a hole you dug in your back garden?

That might be the spark that starts the sickness in the first place, it usually is.