Washer, Dryer, Stove, Emergency Water Storage Tank?

There are certain features one expects in a home. They contribute to the utility, comfort, and lifestyle that people have cultivated over the decades and centuries.

Indoor plumbing is clearly one of those features, even though it’s not something that we think about or admire. If this were the mid 1800’s or earlier, we wouldn’t think about it either, it would be too silly a fantasy. Back then, we would certainly admire the concept though. Today, we simply take it for granted that we have reasonably clean hot and cold running water available to us within the climate controlled comfort of our homes, 24/7. Similarly, the concern about having to slip outside in the middle of a freezing night to relieve ourselves in an outhouse is beyond anyone’s consciousness too.

The same goes for a stove that doesn’t have to be stoked, illumination at the flip of a switch, convenient bathing, heating and cooling to suit our comfort, and so on.

Considering the multitude of water features that we utilize, having those conveniences and the essential necessity of water interrupted or cut-off, would initially be burdensome, yet in a short amount of time, become alarming, devastating, and potentially life threatening.

Available, clean, potable water for consumption and hygiene, flowing from an indoor tap, is something most Americans take for granted, expect, and are totally dependent on.

In our society, provision of that dependency is often outsourced to others. Most Americans rely on a public utility to deliver that available, clean, potable water to them for what is relative to its value to life—a small fee. If from some tragic event, that service was to suddenly become unavailable, the convenience of counting on a third party for life-giving sustenance, would immediately devolve into a potentially grave vulnerability.

People who have a private underground well for their own water supply are mostly independent of that risk, unless they are dependent upon third party electricity to power a pump to extract the water. Still, there are certain circumstances where formerly “safe” groundwater can quickly become tainted, undrinkable, or dry up, causing a similar situation if there are no water reserves to rely upon.

The solution to these risk scenarios is emergency water storage. Maintaining a tank full of clean, safe, potable water is an affordable, viable, easy, smart hedge against a water shortage disaster, that can literally save your family’s lives. Long-term, it’s not a set it and forget it solution to address a lack of reasonably safe water, but with a properly sized tank, it can get a family through a fairly long emergency. However, when coupled with a proper emergency water utilization and acquisition plan, emergency water storage can become a long-term life sustaining strategy and solution.

Given the growing threats our society and the world are facing, realistically, an emergency water storage tank must be viewed as another “appliance” that every home is equipped with. An emergency water tank, a stove, a hot water heater, a bathtub, a heating system, etc.—all necessary, important elements of family safety and survival. It needs to be on the mental checklist or set of expectations that every homebuyer and every homeowner demands when outfitting a home. When the majority of homes have a tank, it will seem normal, logical, and expected. The “olden days” when homes didn’t have emergency water tanks will seem like archaic times in the exact ways we now view the age of no indoor plumbing.

What some may dismiss as an unnecessary luxury or result of a conspiracy theory, may one day be a sad source of regret. Families without this essential home appliance might suffer needlessly, when an affordable solution could have easily prevented devastating hardship.