So speaking of doomsday, if the infrastructure goes, electricity and water and food, what's a chap to do? Without water you die in 3 days,
I think a lot of otherwise prepared folk neglect this most basic fact. In the US, most get their water from some sort of municipal utility. This may be the greatest lever of control available to a totalitarian regime gone mad.
OTOH, pretty much every major metro has a place that resells used 1000 liter IBC totes for $100 or so. That's enough water to keep one person in drinking, cooking, and very limited cleaning for 6-8 months. Beats needing to line up for the (((FEMA camps))) after two days in order to continue to live.
(Or maybe, you know, just riding out the event where some turrist cell has poisoned your local reservoir)
#justsayin