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When the power, the water or the road stops
Each of these pages is taken from a chapter of When Everything Stops, with the numbers written out so you can use them tonight. More are on the way.
- How to make water safe to drink without electricityBoil it, two drops of bleach a litre, or six hours in the sun. Plus what none of them can fix.
- How to prepare for a power cut, and get through the first three daysThe seven questions to answer first, the fridge numbers, safe light, phones, cash and a 10-step checklist.
- The home rehydration drink: the WHO sugar and salt recipeOne litre of water, six level teaspoons of sugar, half a level teaspoon of salt. How much to give, and when it is clinic now.
- Flood preparedness checklist: before, during and after15 cm knocks you over, 30 cm floats a car. The warning signs, the go-bag, and what to do after the water goes down.
- How to make a tin-can rocket stoveA 20-litre tin, two food tins and a bucket of ash. Boils a litre on a handful of sticks. Ten steps, with measurements.
The book this page comes from
When Everything Stops
Thirty-two chapters on water, fire, food, toilets, first aid, small solar, radio, floods and outbreaks, for ordinary households and for people who have never done any of it before.
It is 350 pages, with 85 line drawings, ten weekend projects and sixteen quick cards. Written for hot countries first, with cold-climate notes where the advice changes.