Are you presuming this is CLEAN water???????
Slogging through toe deep sewage can lead to sepsis if you have a break in the skin.
After just having dealt with a MRSA infection myself, no thanks.
If folks don't want to risk wading through filthy, contaminated, likely disease ridden sewage, I'll cut them some slack.
Hmmm... I think I will add a couple of pairs of wadders to my preps.