What is the best way to store drinking water that is not plastic?
I have a water source close to home and would like to store a month’s worth of water at home. I’m looking for a container that will not contaminate the water
What is the best way to store drinking water that is not plastic?
Glass, or wooden barrel.
55 gallon metal drums?
I don't know if there's a plastic coating inside ones meant for water, but maybe you could clean out one (very good, otherwise you'll poison yourself) meant for fuel and perhaps use beeswax or some other nontoxic waterproof coating to line the inside of it.
Or like said, use wooden barrels. However they're actually quite expensive and will eventually and inevitably rot.
Just dig a well otherwise, and use some glass jugs to keep a short supply
>use wooden barrels. However they're actually quite expensive and will eventually and inevitably rot.
Rotting is certainly possible but with proper storage and a little care they'll provide years of service. In the event that a barrel does start to fail, it can still be taken apart and salvaged. They make good planters if cut in half and the staves and head can be taken apart and put to different uses. At worst it becomes firewood or mulch. I'm sure the hoops can be used somehow too. Yard art, maybe, if nothing else.
Oh and one more thing. There WILL be leakage, absorption, and evaporation loss if wooden barrels are used.
Metal drums would only be good if they're stainless steel, or hastelloy (the former gets expensive, the latter enters absurd regulatory expensive). Wood is a no-go for long term storage. It'll rot if untreated, and leach chemicals if not. If burnt it is fine, but will add smokiness to the water.
Congratulations, you're the least functional autist in the room. Calling other retards disabled may make you correct, but you're even deeper on the spectrum. There are food-storage plastic drums in use in nearly every chemical and food manufacturing plant on earth.
>Corporations use them therefore they're safe
You used a lot of words to say something very stupid.
ceramic cistern
>not plastic
Literally why? Good quality plastic won't contaminate the water either.
you don't know anything, lady, just stop talking about what you obviously know nothing about.
Nice argument gay.
you need to be 18 or older to post here
>Plastic won't contaminate
prove it.
My argument is you're retarded, your argument is Plastic containers don't break down or introduce impurities
The ball is in your court to substantiate your assertion. Your inability to do so is all the evidence I need to demonstrate my argument: you're retarded
>doesn't back up his claims with peer reviewed evidence and expects shitheads on a Bolivian chess forum to simply take him at his word
>calls others retarded
What did he mean by this
>prove a negative
How about no, moron?
>I'm retarded
I already knew that--thanks for more proof.
>Plastic doesn't break down over time
why look, another retard
lrn2negation
>There is proof to the contrary that I can't refute
ftfy
>Contrary
I was agreeing with you, but because English is the bitch of double negatives I won't call you an ESL.
>Plastic won't contaminate the water worse than every other bottling material
>in other words its the worst water contaminator
Plastic is just fine for water storage.
Look at pic related. He is a pepper who drinks water exclusively from his plastic barrel storage containers and has for years and there is nothing wrong with him. He is fine.
Sure one eye is 3x the size of the other and his hair looks to be electrified, but you can't prove that is from the plastic his water is in.
Anon, microplastics are already in the water. They're in rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, everywhere. You can't avoid them. Whether you drink from plastic bottles or not, you are filled with microplastics right now.
There are varying degrees of contamination. Just because it might be unavoidable doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all.
What a nerd lmao
>Eat the plastic, nom nom nom
Why are you replying to me
>Good quality plastic
Plastic is not a good quality material whatsoever
Plastic won't contaminate the water worse than every other bottling material.
If you don't know the answer, just say so anon
just drink water as much as you can and drink your piss thereafter
Dig a lake. Boil water before use. Done.
Can it
For Consumption I intent on putting it in a 5L Glass container with a lid big enough to be opened and cleaned but what about transportation from the spring to my place and storing it? i'd like to have a month of water at hand.
You're gonna need a bucket and steel 55 gallon drums/barrels, you can transport them pretty much anywhere you can walk, and some you can't with just a dolly, a rope, dedicated straps for the drums, and a good water pump to fill them.
Get a dolly with big tires and strap the barrel on it, you can go anywhere with it, provided you're strong enough to lift it after it's off the dolly's leverage.
If you're not walking it, just put however many your ATV can carry on it.
Or maybe a small trailer for them?
The rope is for going down steep hills, somewhat optional, because it's always good to have on hand
>55 gal steel drums
is the epoxy lining on those things food safe?
i thought OP asked for containers that aren't plastic.
the anon suggesting old brewery equipment is probably the closest one to being on the right track.
personally i would use plastic because its the only one that makes sense to bury. steel and wood will just decay and both will leech way more harmful shit into the water in the process.
Also, ONE 55 gallon drum will last for at least 55 days if only one person is drinking from it (recommended intake for adult males is 1 gallon daily).
If your window of use is roughly 30 days, then just 3 barrels will leave you with a sizeable surplus every month for a 4 person family
It'll be piss easy!
5 gal glass carboy
OP wants a month's supply. Steel barrels would be way more efficient in terms of cost per gallon.
But they are lined with guess what? PLASTIC
>Just use plastic bro, totally inert bro
https://edu.rsc.org/science-research/sunlight-produces-thousands-of-compounds-from-plastic/4014573.article#:~:text=Sunlight%20can%20chemically%20breakdown%20plastics,of%20these%20dissolve%20in%20water.
Honestly if you store your bulk water exposed to sunlight you are probably too dumb already to be affected by plastic chemicals.
>it's just sunlight that does it
Why do you insist on posting about something you obviously know nothing about.
All plastic has a decay cycle you mouth breathing retard--sunlight just accelerates it.
Stop posting--you're very dumb.
>Shouldn't leach
holy shit you're retarded. There is no such thing as a synthetic polymer that doesn't decay. Using plastic for long term storage of water is about as retarded as you can get.
This is accurate.
There is no known polymer that doesn't decay. Long chain chemicals are continually detaching imperfect bonds at the atomic level and the plastic itself is loaded with impurities.
Name one municipality that uses plastics on resivoirs. I'll wait.
Name one municipality that doesn't use pvc and hdpe for transmission lines and laterals. I'll wait.
>The city does it therefore it must be good
Appeal to authority: look it up.
Group think: look it up.
They used to use lead in Rome as well.
Plastic is shit. You're retarded. You can make your own ceramic cistern and glaze it with a hand torch.
I follow along just fine: you're obviously very retarded and much dumber than you obviously think you are.
Moves goalpost and calls people retards. Pic related, it's you.
>Gets owned
>Frog posts
cringe
This attitude of trying to own people is what leads to threads turning into bickering trash flinging. You're part of what makes this board shitty. If you think you're so smart, how come you haven't figured out how to share your ideas in ways where people will listen to them? No, you just want to stroke your ego.
Virgin samefag city dweller posting false arguments, misdirection, and sophistry with breath smelling of chlorine and fluoride.
>Dunning Kruger word spew
Why are you so inspired to comment on something you obviously know nothing about?
Theres nothing wrong with lead retard. I grew up eating paint chips and im perfectly normal.
On a serious note i learned recently that av fuel is the only fuel that still contains lead and it smells so good
>Mah municipality don use plastics.
What do you think keeps the water from sweeping into the soil? Plastic membranes. Picrel. It's almost like you've never been PrepHole of your mum's basement.
Wait, you actually drink tap water?
Ahahahhahaha
Ahahahah
no wonder you're so obviously retarded.
>Material discontinued by DuPont in 2010
ahahhahaha
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Retarded shills sucking dupont dick like good little consooomers. Don't ask questions goy.
lmao
(he typed from his urban apartment)
>Projection
My city has some of the cleanest municipal drinking water in the world. You're very dumb--I'm sure your life is difficult.
>He admits it
>My life is difficult
I am well aware
I don't drink municipal water--regardless of how clean it is. Even though it's incredibly clean: I still filter. The kid I'm responding to posts the same retardation in every thread. Truly a pathetic lad to try trolling PrepHole
Yes, we get it, you're unoriginal and boring as well as desperate for attention but two dumb to survive on 4chan. Try again.
Microplastics in drinking water are completely avoidable if you live in a rural area.
see
The irony is palpable
*pliable
at least learn english properly if you're going to use big words
Anon, I...
My city also makes such claims which is repeated ad nauseum by everyone and the media. However when I actually read the annual water quality report, I found that it contains absurd levels of fluoride, and non-trivial traces of an herbicide called atrazine, which is xenoestrogen that has been shown to feminize male frogs in larger doses. How much research have you actually done on your water supply?
>feminize male frogs
Some people have really identified with the Pepe meme. They worry they'll catch dickfallsoff.
>Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)
https://archive.is/FFOXu
>An embryonic atrazine exposure results in reproductive dysfunction in adult zebrafish and morphological alterations in their offspring
https://archive.is/wZTNV
>Low atrazine dosages reduce sperm quality of Calomys laucha mice
https://archive.is/oM5v0
You will drink zee chud juice. You will mock those who point it out.
Ok dear. Go play with your toys.
I'm trans btw, not sure if that matters
>city
>cleanest
When they all suck, it's easy to be the best
That doesn't even include the hundreds of millions of plastics balls they float on top of reservoirs in an attempt to mitigate evaporation you autistic twat waffle. Oh wait, I get it. You grew up in a house with lead pipes, didn't you?
You realize there was a time when lead was considered safe right? Same goes for your plastic. The city uses it because it's cheap, not because it's safe.
If y'all can afford stainless steel or ceramic bulk containers, buy them. I said plastic is the affordable option, especially for water to clean with. I also asked if OP lives close to water, why is he trying to store it and suggested a filter setup instead.
Go back to rebbit if you can't follow along and let the adults discuss things in peace.
glass lined water tank, or maybe enamel lined
Old preserving crocks with lids would work, but aren't cheap. Food grade plastic shouldn't leach tho, so that's the affordable option for bulk storage. Plastic is fine for storing water to wash with either way. Why do you want to store water if you have a water source nearby? Just get a berkey to filter it as needed. Maybe drive a shallow well?
Stainless steel.
if OP just starts a brewery then the alcohol will keep his water clean and safe
Breweries have some of the highest water filtering requirements of any industry.
You can store water in giant tortoises, just make them drink water and crack them open when you get thirsty.
you're supposed to crack open a bear not a tortoise idioit
Anyone know of a good water filter to keep at home that isn't made of plastic?
Depends where you live. Some states use a salt type flouride that can only be removed by distillation. The city or municipality should have a public water report. If you live in a major metropolitan area your best option is get a water cooler and buy distilled.
I thought this was going to be a nice, informative thread where people talk about their choice of canteens and long term water storage containers.
can't have shit nice PrepHole here
>Long term: glass or ceramic
>Short term: whatever you like
Your expectation was to be spoon fed like a nine year old.
Lead. If it worked for the Roman’s and it’s good enough for me.
maybe some nice aluminium field bottle? Im thinking about getting one. Anyone got any recommendations?
Underground water tanks are pretty common for off grid water systems. Some large plastic containers are safe to use for water storage being NSF approved.
If it’s rainwater, which is free, I’d collect it in large containers with a debris filter. Then through a water purification filter. With an electric pump, you can supply clean water for your house and water pressure for the faucets. It also allows you to push water through the filter at a faster rate.
>Just drink the plastic like a good goy
Old milk cans.
Become a well chad
Is this a good water storage? The only non stainless steel part that contacts with the water is the O ring, which I assume is silicone.
well that's fucking sexy
You can probably replace the o-ring with brass--which is softer than the steel and should work just fine. You could put some wax under the brass o-ring just to add extra leak protection.
Did you really need a whole thread for this? Glass containers at home, metal containers when outdoors. That's it.
>Doesn't read the thread
>Posts something stupid anyways
many such cases
And I'll fucking do it again