National Preparedness Month: Why September Is the Perfect Time to Build Your Emergency Water Plan
National Preparedness Month: Why September Is the Perfect Time to Build Your Emergency Water Plan
September is National Preparedness Month, making it a great time to ask one simple question:
If your tap water became unavailable or unsafe tomorrow, would your family have enough water?
Emergency preparedness often brings flashlights, batteries, generators, first-aid kits, and food to mind. But one of the most important resources in almost every emergency is also one of the easiest to overlook:
Water.
And you don't have to live in a hurricane zone to need an emergency water plan.
National Preparedness Month Is About Being Ready Before the Emergency
Preparedness isn't about predicting exactly what will happen.
It's about making sure you're ready when something unexpected does.
A household can lose access to safe tap water for many reasons:
- Water main breaks
- Boil-water advisories
- Power outages
- Winter storms and frozen pipes
- Flooding and contamination
- Earthquakes
- Municipal infrastructure failures
- Severe storms, tornadoes and hurricanes
Some emergencies provide days of warning. Others provide almost none.
That's why September is a good opportunity to review your supplies before you're standing in a store looking at empty shelves.
Start Your Preparedness Plan With Water
Federal emergency-preparedness guidance recommends storing at least one gallon of water per person per day for several days for drinking and sanitation.
For a family of four, even the minimum adds up quickly:
3 days = 12 gallons
7 days = 28 gallons
And that doesn't necessarily account for additional water needed for pets, cooking, medications, hygiene, or an extended outage.
Water is also heavy.
One gallon weighs more than eight pounds, which means storing dozens of gallons in bottles and containers can quickly consume valuable space.
That's where having a different type of emergency water-storage plan can make sense.
Store the AquaPodKit Now. Store the Water When You Need It.
AquaPodKit® was designed around a simple idea:
Instead of permanently storing dozens of gallons of water, store a compact emergency reservoir and use your bathtub when an emergency threatens.
When you have advance warning of a potential interruption, AquaPodKit can be placed in your bathtub and filled directly from the faucet.
The reservoir provides a clean barrier between your emergency water and the bathtub itself while allowing you to take advantage of space already available in your home.
An AquaPodKit can hold up to approximately 65 gallons of fresh water when properly filled.
When you don't need it, the empty AquaPodKit takes up a fraction of the space required to permanently store that much bottled water.
Prepare the container today. Fill it when you need it.
Emergency Water Isn't Just a Hurricane Problem
Hurricanes are one of the most visible reasons people prepare for water disruptions, particularly during September.
But emergency water storage shouldn't be limited to Florida, Texas, Louisiana, or other hurricane-prone areas.
A broken water main in Ohio can interrupt water service.
A winter freeze in Tennessee can burst pipes.
A power outage in Michigan can affect infrastructure.
Flooding can create water-quality concerns far from the coast.
A boil-water advisory can happen virtually anywhere.
Your ZIP code doesn't determine whether you need water.
That's an important distinction.
Emergency water storage isn't really about preparing for a particular disaster.
It's about preparing for the loss of something your family uses every single day.
Don't Forget the Bathtub
People have been told for generations to fill their bathtub before certain emergencies.
There's a good reason: the bathtub represents a large amount of unused storage capacity already sitting inside your home.
But filling a bare bathtub isn't the same as storing drinking water in a purpose-built container.
Bathtubs can contain residue from cleaners, soaps, personal-care products, and everyday use. An open tub also leaves the water exposed.
AquaPodKit turns that unused space into a contained emergency water-storage system without requiring you to dedicate a closet, garage, or basement to large permanent tanks.
Make September Your Annual Preparedness Checkup
National Preparedness Month is a great reminder to check more than your water supply.
Take a few minutes this September to inspect your emergency supplies.
Check flashlight batteries. Review medications and first-aid supplies. Replace expired food. Make sure family members know where emergency supplies are stored. Review your evacuation and communication plans.
And most importantly, decide where your water will come from if the faucet stops working.
Don't wait until an emergency is approaching to discover that your plan has a hole in it.
The Best Emergency Water Is the Water You Prepared Before You Needed It
When a major emergency is announced, bottled water can disappear from store shelves quickly.
But the bigger lesson of National Preparedness Month is that preparedness shouldn't begin when everyone else starts preparing.
It should happen before there's a reason to panic.
September gives us that reminder.
Whether the next emergency is a hurricane, winter freeze, water-main break, power outage, boil-water advisory, or something you never anticipated, your family's need for water remains the same.
You can't predict every emergency. You can prepare for one of the things almost every emergency has in common.
Water.
Make Emergency Water Part of Your September Preparedness Plan
AquaPodKit® provides a simple way to turn your bathtub into an emergency water-storage system, holding up to approximately 65 gallons of fresh water when filled before a water interruption.
Made in the USA. Compact to store. Simple to set up. Ready when you need it.
Don't wait for the emergency. Get prepared this National Preparedness Month.
Shop AquaPodKit® today and make emergency water part of your family's preparedness plan.