http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americ ... 2016-04-13
One brief quote:
This large-scale infrastructure, which protects communities from floods and droughts, is likely in the worst shape, according to Gene Stakhiv, an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a visiting scholar at the Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources. Stakhiv dubbed this issue a “union of Sisyphus and Pandora” in a 2003 journal article.
For example, though reservoirs help regulate the water supply in a variety of ways, not a single new one has been built in 25 years, population growth notwithstanding, according to Stakhiv. At D-minus, water infrastructure receives one of the lowest grades on a “report card” that the American Society of Civil Engineers gives U.S. infrastructure, with dams, drinking water and wastewater meriting solid D’s and levees and inland waterways rated worse.
But it’s not just sinks and toilets that are circling the drain: Overall, the country’s bridges, dams, energy, roads, transit and additional infrastructure categories pass (but just barely) with a D-plus.
How many folks are prepared to go without public water? If so, how long? What preparations do people have in place for a breakdown in our water supply systems? It wouldn't take much in the way of natural disasters for us all to be up a creek.
Here's one thing you might want:
http://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-S ... awyer+mini
And here's another, although I personally prefer the 55 gallon barrels...
http://www.amazon.com/WaterBrick-1833-0 ... ter+bricks