Maintaining Potable Water Supply Post-Flood/Storm

[Mortblanc]

I just had a brain fart.

Got to wondering what large container would be easily available in a disaster zone and appropriate for boiling large quantities of water.

A guy on TV started talking about "bathtub gin" and it hit me that one could pull a steel bathtub from the rubble, plug the drain hole and sit it on a couple of stones or blocks and stoke a good fire under it at the end opposite the drain.

If you kept two or three going at the same time you could rotate out 400 liters of water from each tub. It would take a long boil time so it would be best to keep two or three going if possible.