What is more important: Water, Food, Health Care, Shelter, or Clothing?

Answer 1

They are not mutually exclusive except for health care. For a human to survive for any length of time, water, food, shelter is required. Clothing is actually a form of shelter to protect our fur-less bodies from the elements. Health care--unnecessary if you have the others in perfect proportions.

Answer 2

Water

Answer 3

Water

Answer 4

Water. Healthcare, shelter and clothing you can make do without for awhile, food is necessary but not as much as water. Since our bodies are mostly water, one cannot live very long without it.

Answer 5

You can go longer without food, shelter or clothing than you can without healthcare or water. I'll say water. Lots of healthcare is administered by quacks.

Answer 6

Water most of the time --> http://www.valleywater.net/hydration.htm

Clothing followed closely by Shelter in more extreme conditions --> http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/mar/stories/desertsur.html & http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~mmcooper/old%20homepage/classes/survival2.html

Food

and finally heath care except depending on the situation it could fall in between any of the others and if there is a life threatening emergency which would raise this to the first priority --> http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/ & http://www.redcross.org/services/youth/izone/quizzes.html

Answer 7

You need only your third paragraph. BTW, they started in 1965. It's called Medicare, and it was passed on a promise that by 1990 it would only cost $9B (actual cost $67B). Once you control 15-20% of the economy, the rest gets easier.

Answer 8

Health care, because if you didn't have any of the other ones, they could help you out.

Answer 9

Water. Water is life. Without water you die. Healthcare cannot keep you alive without water.

Answer 10

water