Comment 61488

By Zot (anonymous) | Posted March 24, 2011 at 18:04:53

Building water crisis in Tokyo:

For the past 2 days the Japanese government has been broadcasting public service messages on radio and television in the Tokyo area urging residents "not to panic and not to horde bottled water."
Predictably, retail stores are now sold out of bottled water.
The government is now announcing plans to distribute a ration of 24 oz. (2 beer bottle sized containers) of bottled water per day for each registered infant under the age of 1 year. This will entail the distribution of 240,000 bottles of water per day.
If it became "necessary" to provide emergency drinking water rations at survival levels for all people currently within the contaminated drinking water zone distribution of on the order of 100,000,000 (one hundred million) 12 oz bottles of water per day would be required. By way of comparison the entire United States consumes about 86 million bottles of bottled water per day.
I have not heard anyone suggest that a bottled water distribution on this scale would be possible given the current conditions in the country.


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