When the water stops ( article)

[Paul]

Realistically though, where are you going to get water from if the pipes run dry?
As for city dwellers there are always the rivers?
London (Thames), Liverpool (Mersey), Bristol (Avon). Yeah right!
Londoners should be ok though as all their water has been recycled an average of 6 times before it "escapes". Sort of puts a new dimension on the phrase that "all water has been passed by the management" doesn't it?

Living in the country doesn't help. We've got field drainage ditches all round us all flowing into the River Witham. A lovely cocktail of animal effulent and fertilizer flows down them.
Add the 11 towns further up stream from us. No way!!!!

Lakes? The two gravel lakes near us have water skiing and jet skis every weekend.
Still if you draw water from deep enough it might be treatable enough.

So what's left? Put down bore holes. We could but with everyone in the village using "private sewage" i.e. cesspits, I REALLY don't think so.

Rain water. It's not raining!!!!!!!!!!! It was , now it's not.
We've got three 50 gallon barrels collecting the rain. 150 gallons total.
Should last what, a month? It's not the quantity though, after a while all barrel water goes stale.
Problem is it's coming into summer. Less rain and loads of sun shining onto our barrels.
Heat, dark, and untreated, the perfect place to make Algae.