A company is better equipped to do without water than Internet access. Just tell every employee to bring water and washcloths and towels to work.
I'm not sure how well the toilets will work without water. Take a modest office building with 500 employees in it and you have about 2500 gallons of water per day just for the toilets and urinals (a bit less if they don't wash their hands afterwards).
I still agree Internet access is a necessary public utility, but a water main break is still a huge problem even if you run to Cosco to stock up on bottled water.
The most efficient water closets commonly installed in the US use 1.28 gallons per flush. (more typical WCs use 1.6 gpf) Although some urinals are non-flush "waterless" types, those are rarely used. Very efficient flush urinals are down to a pint per flush, but only half the population uses them.
Outhouses or porta-potties could be used in a pinch if there were no water available.
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Which is worse? No Internet, or no water? (Score:4, Interesting)
But no Internet access? For many companies that would mean great difficulty in doing the normal work.
Internet access has become a necessary public utility.
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A company is better equipped to do without water than Internet access. Just tell every employee to bring water and washcloths and towels to work.
I'm not sure how well the toilets will work without water. Take a modest office building with 500 employees in it and you have about 2500 gallons of water per day just for the toilets and urinals (a bit less if they don't wash their hands afterwards).
I still agree Internet access is a necessary public utility, but a water main break is still a huge problem even if you run to Cosco to stock up on bottled water.
5 gallons per employee (Score:2)
True: "... a water main break is still a huge problem...".
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The most efficient water closets commonly installed in the US use 1.28 gallons per flush. (more typical WCs use 1.6 gpf) Although some urinals are non-flush "waterless" types, those are rarely used. Very efficient flush urinals are down to a pint per flush, but only half the population uses them.
Outhouses or porta-potties could be used in a pinch if there were no water available.