California Grid Water Supply
All California community water comes from the California State Water Project. The water is pumped to homes, businesses, military bases, hospitals, factories. When the grid goes down, we have 7 days before people die from dehydration.
- Bottled water companies filter community water, bottle it an sell it.
- Firefighters depend on grid supplied water to fight fires.
- Pharmaceutical companies use filtered water sourced from the community water grid as a base IV fluids and in the processing of medications.
- People have turned on the faucet or turned on the hose and have water.
- In 2026, during the war with Iran, several states experienced cyberattack on their water grid.
Government at all levels have an emergency response protocols set in place. But long term, weeks even months would overwhelm the system. Small urban communities, such as apartment complexes can prepare they’re tenants by each tenant their own resources.
Having your own source of water, apart from bottled water could save your life and get you through a grid outage. Harvesting water from the air has been used for thousands of years and was the main water supply of societies. The United States hasn’t needed off grid water for over 100 years. Now we have an appliance that can function on solar, completely off grid so your family has an independent water supply. Please review the video below which explains from an engineering aspect what would happen if the electric grid went down.