aqua pura
When the end of the world as we know it comes there will be one consolation; every home in suburbia will have a freezer compartment full of ice which will turn into potable water after the power goes off and we plunge a portion of a century back in time. There will be no cholera or yellow fever to contend with since the water will be as clean as modern man has been able to produce. We will be remembered by the survivors, our progeny, as being the first and last generation to conquer water born diseases. Death by simple dehydration will occur about three days after the crash. Then, almost everyone will die. Limited numbers of us will survive. The ones with bottled water will last three days after their water runs out. People with access to wells will survive until their food runs out. They may last as long as several months, depending on their ability to forage and the carnivorous tendencies of their neighbors. Within a finite number of days everyone will either be dead or dying. The stench of rotting flesh will be powerful enough to write our epitaph…we were distracted fools.
