Emergency Survival Kit

Emergency Survival Kit

by | Aug 28, 2020 | Disaster Management

Emergency Survival Kit

Of course, you can have all the emergency supplies under the sun, but you’ll need to have a portable emergency survival kit handy in case you need to evacuate in a hurry.

An emergency survival kit should cover your basic survival needs: food, water, and shelter. It should also contain essential disaster management tools such as a first-aid kit, a source of light, and methods to survive for up to two weeks.

Did you know that approximately 1 in 4 people who travel for over a week will become ill (some studies show even higher) due to contaminated water?

Contents of First Aid Kit
The lightest, most portable way to store food in your emergency survival kit is to use dehydrated foods. Dehydrated foods are light, compact, and non-perishable, making them perfect for emergencies. If you’re likely to be near water, it could be a good idea to keep a fishing line, hook, and sinker in your emergency survival kit. That way, you can sustain yourself in an emergency.

Access to clean drinking water is essential to any emergency survival kit. The water supply can often become polluted or be cut off during an emergency, so it’s essential to make sure you have a reliable method of water purification to ensure good disaster management. The most portable, reliable method of water purification is the Sure Aqua Survival Straw. The Sure Aqua Survival Straw is light and only slightly larger than a regular straw, making it a perfect, portable option for an emergency survival kit. Should you have sufficient space, the Sure Aqua Survival Jerrycan can provide bacteria and virus free water for a group of people.

The shelter can be tricky when you’re trying to make sure your emergency survival kit remains compact and portable. A good strategy is to store an aluminum blanket in your emergency survival kit.

These blankets are compact, heat resistant can be used to make shelter, and are highly reflective, making it easy for rescuers to spot you.

Try to avoid taking shelter underneath tall trees as branches can fall any time, especially during emergency conditions. The best method of disaster management if you cannot seek shelter in a safe man-made dwelling is to take cover in a natural shelter such as a dip in the land or a rocky underpass.

Naturally, a first-aid kit makes for good disaster management and is essential in any emergency survival kit. As a minimum, a good emergency first-aid kit should contain:

  • Bandages
  • Iodine
  • Steri strips
  • Band-aids
  • Scalpel
  • Rubber gloves
  • Antibiotic cream
  • Antihistamines
  • Painkillers
  • Insect repellent
Survival Kit Sign

Of course, you will need to adapt your disaster management strategy to your personal requirements. For example, make sure your first-aid kit contains an adequate supply of any prescriptive medications you may need, and be careful to keep these inside your emergency survival kit in case you need to evacuate in a hurry. If you live in a particularly hot area, make sure to include sunscreen as well.

 Light is another vital part of any emergency survival kit. A medium-sized wind-up torch is an ideal option. However, if you cannot find a wind-up torch, opt for a regular torch and keep some spare batteries inside your emergency survival kit. A lighter and some matches are also essential as they’ll help you to light a fire, which can attract rescuers, provide warmth, and cook food.

Survival in Tornado area

 What should you store your emergency survival kit in? Don’t go for anything that could burn, fall apart, or be difficult to carry. A small backpack is the best option for most people. Consider investing in a small backpack. The SureAquaPak is a smart option like a container for an emergency survival kit: it’s portable, strong and contains a method of water purification for good disaster management.

Final Say

You never know when you may be impacted by a natural disaster.  It is essential and smart to be prepared,

Why wait..

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Access to Clean Safe Water after a Natural Disaster Incident

Access to Clean Safe Water after a Natural Disaster Incident

by | Aug 26, 2020 | Emergency Relief

Access to Clean Safe Water after a Natural Disaster incident

We can add one more thing to what we are going to experience in life other than death and taxes. It’s a natural disaster.

It is has been stated by the UN that 300 million people each year around the world will be impacted severely by some form of a natural disaster. Of that, some 50 million people will be displaced. With more and more information being available, it can be safely predicted, increasingly more areas and people will be severely impacted by a natural disaster. For example, countries, where monsoons are prevalent, are also at high risk of landslides and/or flooding.

Did you know that approximately 1 in 4 people who travel for over a week will become ill (some studies show even higher) due to contaminated water?  

So much water not able to drink a drop

Knowing this, we must prepare ourselves to be equipped to manage natural disaster situations more vigilantly and effectively when they occur.

Access to Water during Disaster and Emergency Situations

Generally, within disaster situations, there is abundant water. This water, however, is undrinkable due to contamination. Natural disasters, whether in the form of flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, or landslides, have a dramatic impact on the quality of water available.

Vast numbers of people become extremely ill after a natural disaster incident because of the need to drink contaminated water out of necessity.

Resulting from our poor environmental management even our underground water supplies are contaminated making it also undrinkable

Look at the recent natural disaster event’s in Haiti, Samoa, India & Philippines all these places have access and ample water, but it is undrinkable because it cannot be treated due to damage to the infrastructure, including water filtration plants, or no power is available to run the plants or access to spare parts to repair the plant. 

the only water to drink

All countries treat town water to various degrees taking out deadly bacteria’s of the like E. coli, Salmonella, and Shigella, protozoa’s such as giardia, cryptosporidium, and virus of the like Hepatitis A. However, as stated, it is not possible during the effects of a disaster to maintain this service.

Sure Aqua Products provide a means of drinking water that is at hand in disaster situations, turning this contaminated water into filtered safe water immediately.

Access to Clean Safe Water

It is well documented and recognized that almost 70% of the global drinking supply is contaminated to some degree, making it extremely risky of becoming infected by some bacteria, protozoa, or viral contamination. It is not advisable for anyone to drink directly from any water catchment area.

Increasing high risk of people being affected by a natural disaster is increasing rapidly

As a direct consequence of the growing population, the impact of natural disasters is becoming rapidly, worse. This is because the less wealthy are forced to live on hillsides that are susceptible to landslides, low lying areas prone to flooding, build housing that is fragile or unstable, close to active volcanic areas, next to river dykes and dam walls and or live in extremely high-density areas which are significantly impacted with any size of a natural disaster.

Research has shown that countries, where there has been a greater environmental degradation, such as land clearing, deforestation, erosion, over grazing, incorrect agricultural practices, amplify any natural disaster!

No Suppliers in refugee camps

Distribution of Aid

In natural disaster relief, one of the most significant issues is the delivery and distribution of aid. In natural disasters situations, the local infrastructure is devastated with roadblocks, train lines broken, airports runways damaged, ports wharfs destroyed, telecommunications infrastructure ruined, making it hard to distribute by normal means. Often airdrops are initially required to distribute in essential supplies.

The cost of distribution of aid is very expensive. Much aid is very voluminous and heavy, especially water. Imagine if the distribution of water, equating to many thousands of tones and cubic metres is no longer required. Imagine if food and shelter are distributed along with a lightweight, portable water solution.

Difficulty in distribution of Aid

Loss of Life can be prevented

The range of SureAqua products is ideal for use in natural disaster situations. These products can be stored for many years and quickly easily transported and delivered to remote, inaccessible disaster-stricken locations; by airdrop; and without being damaged.

The SureAqua products have some unique features, being extremely small and lightweight, chemical-free filtration, removes bacteria, protozoa’s and virus (product dependent) hence making it safe for all people to use, has an inbuilt designed safety shut off mechanism, SafeAqua Products have a long shelf life and are not temperature sensitive (allowing ease of storage) and is very affordable.

Final Say

It makes so much sense to be prepare and purchase a lifesaving device in readiness of the potential disaster that potentially happen tomorrow.

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Drinking Water Standards

Drinking Water Standards

by | Aug 20, 2020 | Water

Drinking Water Standards

Unfortunately, there isn’t an international set of drinking water standards that governments and water suppliers have to abide by. In fact, many countries don’t even have a legally enforceable set of drinking water standards. Instead, governments opt for a set of recommendations by which they would like water suppliers to comply with. Different countries allow different levels of contaminants in the water.

One cannot rely on a particular area’s drinking water standards to ensure safe drinking. Although drinking water standards can’t offer you specific security about what is in the water, they can offer a guideline.

Did you know  their is about 1,500 km3 wastewater annually that is six times more
than the total water of all the rivers in the world

Water Standards

A Maze of Laws and Guidelines with Few Legally Enforceable Requirements

In the United States, the federal law regarding drinking water standards is the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The SDWA follows guidelines set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and relies on individual water suppliers to enforce these guidelines.

According to the SDWA, the EPA must create National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs) for all contaminants that are likely to have adverse effects on human health. These regulations consist of Maximum Contaminant Levels, which regulate how much of any particular contaminant can be present in the water supply at any one time, and Maximum Contaminant Level Goals, which aren’t legally enforceable but provide an indication of the level of contamination the EPA aims to have.

Although the SDWA covers all the public water systems, there are no drinking water standards for bottled water or private wells.

However, it gets even more complicated. The SDWA provides a blanket federal law, but then each State applies its drinking water standards with varying stringency.

Europe has a different set of rules. The European Union (EU) has set up a Drinking Water Directive (DWD), which supplies a blanket set drinking water standards for all Member States. The aims of these drinking water standards are to create a widespread law that offers peace of mind that drinking water from the tap will be clean and safe to drink.

In practice, the EU’s drinking water standards are not as strict as they could be. However, all Member States must commit to regular testing for 48 different microbiological, chemical and organoleptic substances, and must fall within the DWD’s acceptable parameters. 

 

Final Say

For information about the legal level of specific contaminants in the EU, visit http://www.lenntech.com/who-eu-water-standards.htm.

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Emergency Survival in Life Threatening Incidents

Emergency Survival in Life Threatening Incidents

by | Aug 20, 2020 | Emergency Relief

Emergency Survival

Emergencies can be complete chaos. An Emergency Survival Plan is a critical

The first few minutes are complete mayhem.  It can be disorientating.  It can be confusing.  Panic normally happens.  So much depends on the first few minutes and actions that you take.  It could be the difference in life and death.  For this reason alone, everyone should have an Emergency Survival Response plan.However prepared you are, it will always be a shock, and many people lose their composure, clouding their judgment, and affecting their ability to take responsibility, considered actions. When it comes to emergency survival, it’s just as essential to be mentally and emotionally prepared as it is to have all the right supplies.

Did you know almost 90% of all declared natural disasters are floods?

child see home destroyed
Of course, every emergency is different, and so there is no absolute formula for what to do. However, some things are universal to all emergencies.

Emergency Survival Strategy

  1. Remain calm: This may sound the most infuriating advice for a stressful situation, but emergency survival relies heavily on your ability to remain calm and make considered decisions. If you can stay calm, it is likely your family will feel calmer too.
  2. Work out your choices: You should quickly consider how extreme the emergency is and whether or not it is necessary to evacuate. Be emotionally prepared to leave your home if it is the safer option: your possessions are not worth your life.
  3. Alert emergency services: Call 911 if in the United States or 000 if in Australia to request the police, fire brigade or an ambulance. Try to communicate slowly and clearly. Alert emergency services as soon as possible, as they can often take some time to get to you.
  4. Treat the injured: Make sure you have adequate emergency supplies to hand, and work quickly to make sure all injured people are in a stable condition for adequate emergency survival. To be mentally and emotionally prepared to treat others, it’s a good idea to do a basic first-aid course.
Emergency Survival

Of course, each different type of emergency requires a different emergency survival plan.

In case of a fire, make sure you have several unobstructed escape routes. Keeping a fire ladder nearby is also a good idea. Make sure your family knows where the escape routes are and have a pre-determined meeting point away from the house if there in case of a fire. If you have children, teach them that smoke rises, so the ‘get down low and go, go, go!’ motto can be quite useful. Of course, have an emergency survival kit[ready in case you need to evacuate quickly.

Emergency survival in an earthquake is a different matter altogether. Most injuries that occur in earthquakes happen as the result of falling furniture, fire, or gas leaks. To prepare your house, attach shelves, cupboards, fridges, and televisions as securely as possible to the floor or walls. Also, make sure any gaseous items (stoves, water boilers, air conditioners, gas bottles, etc.) are safe and secure.  When the earthquake strikes, be emotionally prepared to gather your family in a central room that has been optimized for harm minimization.

 

Final Say

Emergency survival relies not only on emergency supplies but also on being emotionally prepared for a disaster to occur and having a good knowledge of what to do in a dangerous situation.

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Standard Town Water Treatment Process

Standard Town Water Treatment Process

by | Aug 17, 2020 | Water

Standard Town Water Treatment Process

Your tap water goes through a lengthy water treatment process to ensure that it is clean town water for drinking by government water standards.

For the purpose of this article, the standards outlined and discussed in detail by a document called the ‘Australian Drinking Water Guidelines 6, 2018’ will be used as a point of reference when discussing the water treatment process.

This document was put together by the NHMRC Australia (National Health and Medical Research Council).  This standard is very similar to that of the USA’s CDC.

Almost every water source globally has been contaminated with unwanted disease-carrying bacteria that are not suitable for drinking or use. For this reason, water treatments are required to provide safe drinking water.

Did you know that bottle on average cost 300 times more than bottled water!

Town water plant cleansing

Final Say

Town water plants, on the whole, provide very clean, safe drinking town water. Often water can be contaminated after the water plant through broken infrastructure piping.

In many developed and developing countries, the infrastructure is old and prone to break leading to water contamination regularly.

It is recommended to have some filtration for your drinking water to reduce the potential digesting of infectious bacteria.

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