I've been thinking...
When the water suddenly becomes limited, you begin rationing. For the first 24 hours you drink nothing and then you issue, say, 5 quarts per person per day for all uses. When half of that water is gone, you halve the ration to 5 pints per day. When half of the remaining water is gone, 5 cups per day and so on.
My question is, when is it prudent to cease the halving of the rations due to the condition that any less water does not maintain health? A cup per day?
Or is it essential for moral to continue the halving and thus never run out of water?
Is it better to drink the last of the water or save it?
When the water suddenly becomes limited, you begin rationing. For the first 24 hours you drink nothing and then you issue, say, 5 quarts per person per day for all uses. When half of that water is gone, you halve the ration to 5 pints per day. When half of the remaining water is gone, 5 cups per day and so on.
My question is, when is it prudent to cease the halving of the rations due to the condition that any less water does not maintain health? A cup per day?
Or is it essential for moral to continue the halving and thus never run out of water?
Is it better to drink the last of the water or save it?