Drinking water is mostly solvable if there's an aircraft carrier nearby: http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2010/01/16/aircraft-carrier-purifies-water-challenge-is-d

Drinking water is mostly solvable if there's an aircraft carrier nearby: http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2010/01/16/aircraft-carrier-purifies-water-challenge-is-delivery/ http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2010/01/16/aircraft-carrier-pu... Getting it beyond the port is the hard part, but carriers have a few tools that might help with that.