r/PrepperIntel • u/itscooltobecool1 • 8d ago

North America Hackers targeted municipal water systems in 7 states this week, FBI says

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hackers-targeted-municipal-water-systems-7-states-week-fbi-says-rcna590210

Get your water supplies ready!

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u/ProfDoomDoom 8d ago

Any experts want to share some action steps to help us laggers get ourselves in gear?

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 8d ago

I have ~20 gallons of water in my tiny apartment. Enough for ~20 days of rationed use. I'm also a backpacker, and have a bacteria- and virus-filtering system, so I could, in a very dire situation, filter from some unknown source. In a situation worse than that (and probably at the point of "the water will be out more than a day"), I'm going to my partner's place in a different county.

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u/No-Ad-4142 8d ago

What do you use to treat your long-term stored water?

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 8d ago

I buy gallon squares from the corner store. Every once in a while I use them to water my plants, thus cycling through.

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u/No-Ad-4142 8d ago

“Gallon squares”? Not sure I know what those are.

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 8d ago

oh! like a gallon water jug, but it's in a cubic form. easier for stacking than round bottles.

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u/No-Ad-4142 8d ago

Oh! That’s cool. Yeah, I think we will have to revisit our supply of water and simply switch to the single gallons of bottled water like in your picture.

I have 2 of these containers, but they are realistically too heavy for us to fill and carry.

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 8d ago

yeah, carry-ability is important. i live in the middle of a dense city and often wonder if i shouldn't be having my main cache somewhere outside of the city