HavocXphere
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Well both myself and parents maintained about 5x5 in GP without any imminent crisis so yeah more would be good. Just pointing out it's not exactly a small amount.
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Tabac
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So i've got water, a spare room and free wi fi - Any ladies interested ? :crylaugh:
Gordon_R
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Some people seem to be stockpiling, assuming Day Zero is going to last 3 months, and making sure they have enough to last the whole duration. This is exactly the kind of irrational behavious the city has been trying to avoid, but unfortunately their 'scare tactics' are having this unintended side-effect. When some people see others stockpiling, they are more likely to do so themselves.
Me, I've got one old plastic bucket, and 2l of water in the fridge.
Edit: Yipee, found two half-forgotten buckets in a cupboard! Wasted 20 liters of water washing them off...
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Tabac
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And when it rain (pours) before then, you guys are sorted there in the Cape 
daveza
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That's eight litres per person per week, just over a litre a day per person, to drink, cook, wash, flush ?
Gordon_R
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After Day Zero, washing might be done with non-potable water, and flushing may not happen at all...
If you are not fussy, cooking can be done with rain-water, as long as it is filtered and boiled.
Council rules may no longer apply, since they will have effectively abdicated their responsibility under the Water Act...
Mephisto_Helix
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some people obviously like to think of themselves as Bear Grylls types when dishing out all this 'wisdom'. No thinking, just want to come across as no.1 survival man.
daveza
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A litre per person per day is less than half your required minimum water intake.
Nerfherder
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Is that a question ?
This is what I have at the moment. I'm not going to stockpile 500l, if it gets to that point I'm jumping ship. I need the water for my daughters school as we need to supply drinking water.
If the taps are cut off I will use that water for drinking and will see if the water collection is viable. If not - i'm out.
50l will help us out if there is a really bad situation. I top up my stockpile as I use old bottles that are about to expire - because they do expire.
Nerfherder
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Well I don't get close to 2l currently. If its hot then perhaps but normally its a glass or two.
daveza
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How many kidneys do you have left ?
They don't really expire, but there is a requirement to put some sort of expiry date on everything.
It's a recommended amount and as people seem to keep forgetting it doesn't come only from drinking liquids.
WAslayer
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The bottles have an expiry date because the plastic starts seeping chemicals into the water..
It is a valid question, thanks for your response.
I still think it's too little water thou. See the rest of the responses in this thread. I drink at least 2 litre's a day.
Most people who do that turn the excess into urine, because most people who drink a lot of fluids are consuming more than their body actually needs. Truth is that if the person doesn't actually feel thirsty then their body does not require fluids. The claim that we must drink at least 2 litres per day is mainly marketing to get people to consume more water.
Simple rule - if you feel thirsty then consume fluids (which can come from food).
Archer
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But but if you're thirsty you're already dehydrated, must drink moar all the time!!
I admit I drink "too much" water, mainly because having had to extract several 10-15mm kidney stones was not much fun (thank goodness for modern surgical technology)
Yup, agreed. I'm taking into account all my cups of tea etc.
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Where i`m from we only have water ±2 hours a day because of an utterly incompetent municipality who can`t maintain the pumps properly, the whole town is sitting upon a huge aquifer but the municipality is too useless to pump it.
Those that can afford it have drilled boreholes, but basically everyone who is not renting has installed water tanks.
You should be able to get a 2000l water tank + pressure pump installed for around R5000, it might last you a while if you use it sparingly. On weeks without water, some farmers make a quick buck by filling other people`s water tanks with water from their boreholes that they truck in.
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Those that can afford it have drilled boreholes, but basically everyone who is not renting has installed water tanks.
You should be able to get a 2000l water tank + pressure pump installed for around R5000, it might last you a while if you use it sparingly. On weeks without water, some farmers make a quick buck by filling other people`s water tanks with water from their boreholes that they truck in.
Welcome to s̵h̶i̵t̴h̷o̵l̶e̵ africa, Cape-Town
I had a look at some bottles and it is not even an expiry date, but best before. Furthermore the manufacturers still seem to claim that PET bottles don't pose any risk, so it seems unlikely that the date they stamp on a bottle has anything to do with that. Additionally those best before dates are six months in the future and some research shows that by that stage significant quantities of the chemicals have leached into the water and that the leaching starts happening at a fairly constant rate as soon as the water is placed in the bottle. All in all it looks like those dates are just the standard ones that food manufacturers are required to put on their products regardless of whether they are really best before a certain date or ever expire.