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Far and away the most important thing you’ll need in order to keep yourselves and your loved ones alive is WATER. Here are some ideas of where to find it and/or how to clean and store it.

  2. CISTERNS and/or STORAGE TANKS: According to Wikipedia, a cistern is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, and is often built to catch and store rainwater. They date back to the fourth millennium BC. This Portuguese cistern in Morocco is an extraordinary work of art.

Cisterns can hold as little as a hundred gallons or they can be large underground lakes. They’ve been in use for millennia, especially in desert areas and for dry-land farming. Here are some ancient water-capture sites used by the Nabataeans around the city of Petra. Store the water when it rains, use it when it doesn’t. That’s the principle.

In my novel, the protagonist Bea has a secret underground cistern, built under a suburban back yard. It’s fed by rainwater from the house’s roof, captured by a guttering system, and filtered through rocks and sand on its way into the underground tank where it’s stored. The water is accessed with a hand pump hidden in a closet in the garage. Something along these lines:

    The cistern pictured above is a lined cement tank, but Bea’s cistern is a 10,000-gallon fiberglass job. Her tank is underground, but you can have a decent cistern above ground, too. They’re often seen on farms. It’s not always possible or practical to build underground, although cisterns below surface are more well-hidden and less vulnerable to bullet holes from apocalyptic shoot-outs.

  3.  WATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS. Your water has to be cleaned from chemical contaminants in the air and from bacteria or molds in the ponds, creeks, and ditches where you gather it. Also, general dirt and debris have to be filtered out from water gathered in those places or from the rainwater runoff from your roof.

  You can clean water by filtering it through charcoal, so add a giant stash of that to your stockpiling list. You don’t want to have to make your own charcoal. It takes too many trees that you’ll need for shade, windbreaks, firewood, and wildlife habitat. Those squirrels you’ll be eating will need a home. The practice of making charcoal from scratch has denuded the forests for much of the nation of Haiti.

  You can strain your water through cheesecloth (better get a stash of that, too) and then kill the germs and mold with drops of bleach – really tiny drops, no more than half a teaspoon per eight gallons (if you can get eight gallons at one time) – then let the water sit for a half hour or more. There are pills you can buy with iodine in them that you can add to water, but it would take an awful lot of them to use for a big group of people and/or a lifetime supply. And there’s a low-tech water filtration system you can buy called a Berkey filter that’s supposed to be particularly good for getting rid of bacteria and other killer germs. https://www.berkeyfilters.com/

      Water is serious business, and I am by no means an expert. Read up on it. https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/2015/01/survival-skills-10-ways-purify-water and/or http://all-about-water-filters.com/great-ways-how-to-purify-water-for-drinking/

  Boiling and straining water is a good way to go, if you have the means.

        In Mindy McGinnis’s novel, NOT A DROP TO DRINK, the characters have a pond they’ve guarded for years. They have a system to let sunlight purify water on big metal trays. Read the book to get a better understanding of how it works. It’s a very good book. You will enjoy it.

      4. DESALINIZATION SYSTEMS could be very important for those who live near seawater. Be sure this equipment will work without electricity, since you aren’t likely to have any. And you should be careful about living too close to the ocean these days, what with the rising sea levels and all. Find some high ground near the coast and set up a pulley or skid system for transporting the water to your front door, or your cave, or your lean-to. Be prepared to flee from hurricanes and storm surges.

        The above systems are supposed to desalinate water, and most of them also filter out germs and other stuff that can make you sick. They’re portable to varying degrees and work without electricity. Here’s where I found them online if you want to know more: http://all-about-water-filters.com/best-portable-desalination-kits/

  To see how my unlikely apocalyptic hero, seventy-year-old Bea Crenshaw, shepherds her grandkids and neighbors through the aftermath of a solar pulse, check out IF DARKNESS TAKES US on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Takes-Brenda-Marie-Smith-ebook/dp/B07WK9BQHN or order it from your favorite indie bookstore:

The sequel, IF THE LIGHT SHOULD COME, will be out June 2021 from SFK Press.

   STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE INSTALLMENTS OF “WHAT TO STOCK FOR AN APOCALYPSE.”

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Meritropolis by Joel Ohman

image via Goodreads

Title: Meritropolis

Author: Joel Ohman

Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopis, Young Adult, Fantasy, Apocalyptic

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: September 8th 2014

Goodreads Rating: 3.67

My Rating: 4/5

  “ARC given via Net Galley”

The year is AE3, 3 years after the Event. Within the walls of Meritropolis, 50,000 inhabitants live in fear, ruled by the brutal System that assigns…