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This sounds like the sort of thing I've heard preppers tell me for the almost 50 years I've been around.
And I'll repeat what I usually say: If society collapses to that point, I don't want to survive the aftermath. I have no Mad Max fantasies.
No need for societal collapse. Most of my tech friends in Austin have rain collection tanks and emergency generators now after the grid collapse. Same goes with an uncle that moved to Puerto Rico.
It doesn't take much (not much at all) to put you and your family in a position where you don't have safe drinking water.
Having some sort of off-grid water storage or access method is not being a prepper.
If having off-grid water and power backup, along with some long term storage consumables (freeze dried and canned food) isn't prepping, that what is your definition of prepping?
Hoarding guns and alienating your family.
That's covers most of MAGA.
How long do you expect to be without water and power and have to eat your own food?
Because the people I'm talking about are suggesting indefinitely. No thank you.
Society will not collapse. If it does odds are you won't survive what caused the collapse in the first place. (if you are a prepper make sure your neighbors know how to access you stash - both so that it doesn't go to waste if you can't get to it and because even if you can get to it you will need whatever neighbors survive to rebuild society)
However there are a lot of disasters that are much more likely that society collapse that are worth being prepared for.
As I said to the other person, that's not being a prepper. The whole idea behind being a prepper is that "The Big One" is coming.
Right, I'm saying the big one isn't coming - and even if it comes you won't survive so what is the point.