"Home Guy" wrote in message

Robert Green wrote:

'Where are you going to get 145 litres in a disaster zone?'
he asked.

How many disasters happen in deserts?

http://www.google.com/search?q=water...disaster+zones

Click the above link and educate yourself. I'm a little too busy to do it
for you. I'm married to a retired Army logistician. Water can be awful
hard to come by in a disaster area, especially an earthquake zone where
pipes break and water towers collapse. It does NOT have to be in a desert
by any means. There are three things that are part of every disaster relief
package. Water stations, generators and temporary housing. There are
entire US Army manuals devoted to the subject. Google around, I'm sure
you'll find information about it.

That was my first question.

Doesn't have to be clean, potable (drinkable) water.

Used in places like Pakistan I'd imagine they'd become permanent
slums.

You don't think they already live in permanent slums there?

Osama had a nice $1M compound in a very nice neighborhood in Pakistan. Not
everyone lives in slums in Pakistan, India or in many places in the third
world, contrary to your assertion. Wealthy neighborhoods suffer the same
kind of earthquakes that poorer ones do. The fear of relief agencies is
that emergency housing would cause people not to move back to their original
towns or rebuild their original housing.

Emergency housing is almost always erected on someone else's land, not the
land of the occupants of that shelter and that can cause serious disputes.
In India such relocation has resulted in many deaths as rich farmers, who
often own the land emergency shelters are built on, hired men to displace
the people they see as squatters. As you can imagine, those squatters fight
hard to stay because they usually have no place to go. So that's why
experienced aid workers might see a problem in the concrete shelters.

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Bobby G.