Drought, Famine, or other Weather Calamity

Can you imagine? Water refuses to fall from the sky. Crops, if they sprout at all, quickly wither and die. Trees, once green and fruitful, dry up and die. Resevoirs shrink to the size of puddles. Aquifiers are empty. If you’ve lived in California or other arid areas in the western US, it likely isn’t too difficult to imagine this scenario as near-drought conditions have been a reality for years. But push this scenario to its logical conclusion, and we are soon faced with a real disaster. Fear begins to course through the population. Will there be enough food? Enough water? When these doubts gain traction, store shelves are picked clean before they can be replenished. And when this happens, looting and rioting may soon follow. Lights flicker as utilities struggle to operate with fewer than half staff reporting to work as they stay home to protect their homes and families. Water sputters from faucets, and as more and more services and utilities begin failing, panic levels skyrocket.

The solution?

The Resort at Forest Haven. While water and food shortages cause panic throughout society, we have lush gardens, productive trees and vines, and abundant water resources and reserves. We have ample water, food, and fuel storage. We have gas and electrical power. We have security and communications. We have commerce and transportation. We have extensive grain fields, fruit and nut orchards, vineyards, and animal production… Everything needed to be completely self-sufficient and at the same time, maintain the high standard of living you and your family are accustomed to.

“Right now the U.S. strategic grain reserve contains only enough wheat to make half a loaf of bread for each of the approximately 300 million people in the United States. How long do you think that is going to last? The United States economy is going to collapse and incredibly hard times are coming.”

–Steve Quayle

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

–Jim Wright

As of 2025, 3.4 billion people are projected to face a scarcity of water.

–United Nations

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

–Maude Barlow

When the [faucet] is dry, we know the worth of water.

–Benjamin Franklin

How much supply do we have?
- Food: 1 to 3 days (on store shelves)
- Water: 2 to 4 weeks (in water supply plants)
- Health Care Supplies: 1 to 7 days (in hospitals & nursing homes)
- Pharmaceuticals: 1 to 3 days (on drug store shelves)
- Gasoline: 1 to 2 days (in gas station tanks)
- Cash: 1 to 2 days (in ATMs)

–(American Truckers Assn. Report)

“I glance at the sky, but there are no clouds. There are never clouds. I know what clouds look like only because of the digital images in our lessons at school. I know someone who has been north, to the mountains, and swears she saw clouds. Perhaps she’s telling the truth, but I doubt it.”

–Denise Getson, Dry Souls

Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

–Vandana Shiva