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First three days: stay alive

The NewBold Survival System

Water for 90 Days

You can go weeks without food. You get about three days without water. Of everything a household prepares, water is the one with no substitute and no workaround — and this manual does the math for your household, then builds the system in stages you can afford.

Water for 90 Days front cover
Manual 3 of 4

What's inside

  • The numbers first: the 1-gallon-per-person-per-day floor, the 1.5-gallon working target, and a worksheet that turns your household into one honest gallon number for 72 hours, 30 days, and 90 days
  • The first 72 hours: the 100+ gallons already inside your house — water heater, toilet tanks, pipes — and how to get them safely
  • Storage that works: the right containers (and why milk jugs fail), sanitizing before you fill, where hundreds of gallons fit in a normal house, rotation that doesn't waste water
  • Collection: rain catchment with honest state-by-state legality notes, wells, and mapping the sources near your home
  • Treatment, ranked: boiling, the exact CDC/EPA bleach card for clear and cloudy water, filter-then-disinfect, distillation, and SODIS — what each kills, what it doesn't, and the order to stack them
  • The staged 90-day build: four stages from a 3-day reserve to a full 90-day system, each with a shopping list and a realistic budget line
  • A fully worked example for a family of four, start to finish
  • WATER WHILE YOU'RE BEING HUNTED — watched water points as traps, night collection, route caches at code-name sites, and purification without fire or smoke

Built in two phases

Phase 1

The First 72 Hours

Step by step, in order — the decisions and actions that keep your family alive.

Phase 2

Days 4 Through 90

The sustainment: systems, routines, and resupply that carry you to day 90.

In every NewBold manual

  • A full communications chapter — family comms plan, out-of-area contact, check-in schedule, NOAA weather radio, FRS/GMRS and ham basics with honest licensing notes, and what to do when cell networks fail
  • Built for OPSEC — code-name worksheets throughout: a captured binder tells a stranger nothing
  • Supporting sections on the other pillars — water, food, shelter, medical awareness
  • A Myths section — the bad advice, crossed out

Water is Manual 3 of 4. Get all four manuals plus the Family Code Key in the System Complete bundle and save 44% versus buying the pieces separately.