Bottled water is being limited across multiple brands and locations, according to reports from the Watchman community, and you won’t hear about it anywhere else yet. Meanwhile there’s major chaos in Poland and a warning about next year’s food supply. Here is what the Watchmen are seeing this Saturday.

Bottled Water Limits Show Up

Reports are coming in from the Watchman community that bottled water is being rationed in several places. A reader in rural Wales who gets Tesco deliveries wanted four cases of half-liter water and was allowed only two, with the store pointing to fuel shortages. Some couriers are now delivering to a drop-off point instead of homes. In the United States, a reader says Rural King is out of spring water and Kroger is limiting Ice Mountain to five 24-pack cases. More on those reports below.

A Constitutional Fight in Poland

This is the account as I have it, and it is a fast-moving story. We don’t know what this will look like in 24 or 48 hours.

Let me put it in American terms. Imagine the Democrats won Congress, declared the Supreme Court didn’t count, ignored its rulings for three years, and then, a year before the next election, picked eight new justices of their own, including a man their leader called the right-hand man of the Democrats. That is the equivalent of what happened in Poland. When the Republican president refused to swear them in, they swore themselves in and mailed him the paperwork. When the chief justice said that wasn’t legal, they waited for a Friday night, just yesterday, while the president was on a plane to Africa, and had federal security officers who answer to Democratic cabinet members walk the seven appointees into the court through the back gate. They then suspended the chief justice.

Even law professors who openly can’t stand the chief justice said that has no legal basis, and riot police blocked the attorney general and the chief justice from entering the court. The president turned his plane around over Spain to return to Poland.

My view is that the European Union and what I’d call the globalists are moving to take over Poland, and that elected officials are being set up to be locked up. That is my read. As I see it, this is a serious attack on Poland’s democracy.

How Long Will Fuel Take to Recover

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods says it will take well through next year before fuel supply gets closer to normal, and it could be longer. If the Middle East calms down, he says, gasoline and diesel supplies could take until the end of next year or longer to get back to normal. Chevron says about 10% of the world’s refining capacity is offline. Both companies more than doubled their quarterly profits. Oil companies are making money as long as their stuff isn’t getting blown up in a war.

Ukraine and a Russian Refinery

A drone attack and a major fire were reported in Russia yesterday. It came a day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Ukraine had refused refinery strikes under US pressure until after the November 3rd midterms, and then immediately struck a Russian refinery. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told state TV that Ukraine hit three refineries and a gas chemical complex on Friday. We aren’t getting confirmation of the other strikes, but there’s social media video of one getting hit with the whole sky lit up with smoke.

Fertilizer Exports Down 70 to 75%

Kpler says Middle East fertilizer exports are down 70 to 75%, and for many months. September shipments were 994,000 tons, against 3.4 million tons a month before the war. The Gulf supplies about 30 to 40% of the world’s seaborne urea trade, and 75% of that has been lost. Kpler’s Maline Overgard says the shortfall may inevitably show up in reduced harvests and higher food inflation next year.

This past year, farmers had enough fertilizer sitting around to shift things around, and they were eating into stockpiles for corn and other grains that need a lot of it.

Boil Water Order and Two Recalls

Most of Scituate, Massachusetts, is under a boil water order after a sample tested positive for E. coli. A second sample was negative for E. coli but positive for other bacteria. Officials expect it to take three or four days to fix. Are you prepared for something like that in your hometown?

Two recalls for your pantry and cabinet. One lot of Whole Foods Market ashwagandha capsules, 120 count, is recalled for possible salmonella. They were sold nationwide in Whole Foods stores and on Amazon from November 2025 through October 20th, and it’s a pretty big lot, so check yours. Separately, Wise Wife brand ground cinnamon is recalled for elevated lead after Connecticut’s agricultural experiment station tested it. It went to stores in 14 states between September 2025 and June 2026, and no illnesses have been reported.

What the Watchmen Are Seeing

Wales: A reader in rural Wales, who doesn’t drive and gets Tesco deliveries, was rationed on bottled water, allowed two cases instead of the four they wanted, because of fuel shortages. Couriers are now using drop-off points, which they’d never seen in years of shopping on eBay. “The UK government tells us to prepare, but bottled water is being rationed. Doesn’t make sense to me.”

Energy prep: RCX filled a grandson’s spare gas tanks and picked up another 40-pound propane tank, and a butane stove was arriving. Getting prepped is exhausting, but when there’s a power outage and you’re the one sitting comfortably in a lantern-lit room while the neighbors are blacked out, you’ll feel a lot less stressed. Running around during a crisis trying to get prepared is the worst possible plan, because everyone else will be doing it too.

Indiana: Harry says Japanese snow peas are $12 a pound. He’s watched this channel for years and got plenty of veggies from his garden. Getting good, clean food on your table makes all the difference.

Ground beef: One reader pays $15 a pound at the meat market because they know where it comes from. That’s steep. If you buy in bulk, such as half a cow, most places run $5 to $8 a pound, but you need a deep freezer or people to split it with. A Canadian reader says ground beef there is over $10 a pound and steaks over $15.

Estradiol: Stony Oaks Homestead says estradiol is also available as a pill, the synthetic estrogen people use for age-related issues. They haven’t had trouble getting it filled, even in an extremely rural area, and it’s a quarter of the price of the patch. If you’re on the patch, see whether that helps.

Chicks and eggs: Penpen suggests finding people in your community who incubate their own eggs and putting in an order now for future chicks, starting with backyard chicken owners. Simple Heritage Living dehydrated a few dozen eggs. To rehydrate, mix two teaspoons of egg powder with two teaspoons of water, let it sit 5 to 10 minutes, and that equals one egg. Stored in a glass jar in a cool, dark, dry place, it keeps for up to 10 years. Check the proper methods first.

Off the grid: Solotap has been boycotting the power company over a new add-on and has three 3,000-watt windmills and about 1,400 watts of solar, plus lamps and fireplaces. Not 100% off-grid yet, but close. The five freezers are the big draw. Cutting usage may let you disconnect entirely. Keep a generator and batteries, and make sure you can top the batteries up with the generator. Staying connected means paying delivery charges every month even if you use nothing.

Lighting: Patrick says solar yard lights are useful indoors in an outage. I’m more of a fan of LED lights with rechargeable batteries, charged from real 100, 200 or 300-watt solar panels. That gives you a lot more light for a lot longer.

The Bottom Line

Limits on bottled water, a boil order, recalled pantry items, a fertilizer shortfall that may hit harvests, and a constitutional fight in Poland that could shake Europe. Taken together, the pattern is a supply system that is tighter than it looks.

Get ahead of it now. Store water, check your recalls, stock food you trust, and build a backup for light and power before you need one.

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Steve Poplar is the publisher of The Poplar Report.