Aquatainer Water Storage Tips

[echo83]

So I've started taking water preps a little more seriously. I have an Aquatainer 7 gallon on the way for home use. I have a dry, temperature stable, cement basement to store it. 




Is anyone using these? 

If so, anything I should know about them for water storage? 

What do you use to treat tap water before storing it? 

[Butler Ford]

I have a few of these kept in a reasonably temperature stable cool dark place. I don't do any "official" testing other than taste, smell and color. They seem to have worked really well for the last 5 plus years. I will use them for cooking and drinking ONLY!  I use the large plastic jugs of laundry detergent, when empty, I clean them out the best I can. I fill them with water for the purposes bathing, washing dishes, when the county is working on the water lines, flushing the toilets and whatever other uses we need water for.

[Moab]

https://ufozs.com/smf/index.php?topic=2408.0#msg45123

[echo83]

https://ufozs.com/smf/index.php?topic=2408.0#msg45123

Perfect, thank you!

[echo83]

Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone in this thread and the others. 

I bleach-treated, filled, and date-labelled the Aquatainer today, so I'll do a taste test in a while. 

When I put it on the basement shelf, I thought it looked pretty lonely by itself, and I thought about buying another one, filling it with untreated water, and doing a taste comparison. It's weird how my brain works sometimes.

[MacWa77ace]

Here's another thread https://ufozs.com/smf/index.php?topic=1415.msg28686#msg28686

When I put it on the basement shelf, I thought it looked pretty lonely by itself,

These are stackable, you should floor stack them and save the shelf space for other stuff that shelves better suit.

[Crimson_Phoenix]

Does anybody add a small amount of bleach or other disinfectant to prepare water for long term storage?

[echo83]

Does anybody add a small amount of bleach or other disinfectant to prepare water for long term storage?

I did...see above. Haven't done a taste test yet, but take a look at the thread that Moab linked, it's really detailed. 

[Moab]

Does anybody add a small amount of bleach or other disinfectant to prepare water for long term storage?

I did...see above. Haven't done a taste test yet, but take a look at the thread that Moab linked, it's really detailed.

Check that link. But iirc like either 1 teaspoon per 5 gallon jug. Or rinse it with bleach, pour all the bleach out, then add your water(?).  It doesn't take much. But for sure use bleach. That's what every water treatment plant uses.

[Moab]

I have a few of these kept in a reasonably temperature stable cool dark place. I don't do any "official" testing other than taste, smell and color. They seem to have worked really well for the last 5 plus years. I will use them for cooking and drinking ONLY!  I use the large plastic jugs of laundry detergent, when empty, I clean them out the best I can. I fill them with water for the purposes bathing, washing dishes, when the county is working on the water lines, flushing the toilets and whatever other uses we need water for.

I wonder how well cat litter jugs seal? Those things are huge. And would hold a good amount of just cleaning water. I can never think what to do with those. 

[EBuff75]

For anyone interested, I had an old ZS discussion about water purification in my bookmarks and it's available on archive.org. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20121206075022/http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=88480

[MacWa77ace]

For anyone interested, I had an old ZS discussion about water purification in my bookmarks and it's available on archive.org. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20121206075022/http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=88480

That is one complicated archive. To link directly to that web archive's pages you've got to create a hyperlink insertion using that toolbar tool or else this forum's BBCode splits it and breaks the link.

think this is it>> Click here

Or this >> Click here 2

[EBuff75]

Sorry about that!  When I posted the link it broke up so that only the first part of it was a hyperlink, even though you need the entire thing.  I've fixed it now.