What is the best way to store drinking water that is not plastic?

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

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Glass, or wooden barrel.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      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

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        >I'm moronic
        I already knew that--thanks for more proof.
        [...]
        >Plastic doesn't break down over time
        why look, another moron

        Congratulations, you're the least functional autist in the room. Calling other morons 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.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Corporations use them therefore they're safe
          You used a lot of words to say something very stupid.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    ceramic cistern

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >not plastic
    Literally why? Good quality plastic won't contaminate the water either.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      you don't know anything, lady, just stop talking about what you obviously know nothing about.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nice argument homosexual.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        you need to be 18 or older to post here

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Plastic won't contaminate
      prove it.
      My argument is you're moronic, 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 moronic

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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 moronic
        What did he mean by this

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >prove a negative
        How about no, Black person?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >I'm moronic
          I already knew that--thanks for more proof.

          >Good quality plastic
          Plastic is not a good quality material whatsoever

          [...]
          Plastic won't contaminate the water worse than every other bottling material.

          >Plastic doesn't break down over time
          why look, another moron

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            lrn2negation

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >There is proof to the contrary that I can't refute
              ftfy

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Contrary
                I was agreeing with you, but because English is the b***h 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

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          There are varying degrees of contamination. Just because it might be unavoidable doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        What a nerd lmao

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          *pliable
          at least learn english properly if you're going to use big words

          Anon, I...

          >Eat the plastic, nom nom nom

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Why are you replying to me

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Good quality plastic
      Plastic is not a good quality material whatsoever

      >prove a negative
      How about no, Black person?

      Plastic won't contaminate the water worse than every other bottling material.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      If you don't know the answer, just say so anon

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    just drink water as much as you can and drink your piss thereafter

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dig a lake. Boil water before use. Done.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can it

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      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

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        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!

        OP wants a month's supply. Steel barrels would be way more efficient in terms of cost per gallon.

        [...]
        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.

        https://i.imgur.com/MKuoKeF.jpg

        Stainless steel.

        >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.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      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!

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    5 gal glass carboy

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      OP wants a month's supply. Steel barrels would be way more efficient in terms of cost per gallon.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        But they are lined with guess what? PLASTIC

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly if you store your bulk water exposed to sunlight you are probably too dumb already to be affected by plastic chemicals.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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 moron--sunlight just accelerates it.

        Stop posting--you're very dumb.

        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?

        >Shouldn't leach
        holy shit you're moronic. There is no such thing as a synthetic polymer that doesn't decay. Using plastic for long term storage of water is about as moronic as you can get.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          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?

          Name one municipality that uses plastics on resivoirs. I'll wait.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Name one municipality that doesn't use pvc and hdpe for transmission lines and laterals. I'll wait.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >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.

              [...]
              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.

              Plastic is shit. You're moronic. You can make your own ceramic cistern and glaze it with a hand torch.
              I follow along just fine: you're obviously very moronic and much dumber than you obviously think you are.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Moves goalpost and calls people morons. Pic related, it's you.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Gets owned
                >Frog posts
                cringe

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/IS4DaIi.jpg

                >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.

                https://i.imgur.com/RBB0vlp.gif

                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?

                >Gets owned
                >Frog posts
                cringe

                https://i.imgur.com/P7LW5zy.jpg

                [...]

                Wait, you actually drink tap water?
                Ahahahhahaha
                Ahahahah
                no wonder you're so obviously moronic.

                >Material discontinued by DuPont in 2010
                ahahhahaha
                ahhaha
                moronic shills sucking dupont dick like good little consooomers. Don't ask questions goy.

                lmao

                Virgin samegay city dweller posting false arguments, misdirection, and sophistry with breath smelling of chlorine and fluoride.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Dunning Kruger word spew
                Why are you so inspired to comment on something you obviously know nothing about?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Theres nothing wrong with lead moron. 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

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >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.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              https://i.imgur.com/RBB0vlp.gif

              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?

              Wait, you actually drink tap water?
              Ahahahhahaha
              Ahahahah
              no wonder you're so obviously moronic.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Material discontinued by DuPont in 2010
              ahahhahaha
              ahhaha
              moronic shills sucking dupont dick like good little consooomers. Don't ask questions goy.

              lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                (he typed from his urban apartment)

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >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.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >He admits it

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >My life is difficult
                I am well aware

                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?

                >city
                >cleanest
                When they all suck, it's easy to be the best

                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 moronation in every thread. Truly a pathetic lad to try trolling PrepHole

                you need to be 18 or older to post here

                Yes, we get it, you're unoriginal and boring as well as desperate for attention but two dumb to survive on /misc/. Try again.

                There are varying degrees of contamination. Just because it might be unavoidable doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all.

                Microplastics in drinking water are completely avoidable if you live in a rural area.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                see

                you need to be 18 or older to post here

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you're supposed to crack open a bear not a tortoise idioit

                The irony is palpable

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                *pliable
                at least learn english properly if you're going to use big words

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, I...

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                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?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >feminize male frogs

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Some people have really identified with the Pepe meme. They worry they'll catch dickfallsoff.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                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 troony juice. You will mock those who point it out.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ok dear. Go play with your toys.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm trans btw, not sure if that matters

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >city
                >cleanest
                When they all suck, it's easy to be the best

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            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?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              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.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          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.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    glass lined water tank, or maybe enamel lined

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    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?

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stainless steel.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      if OP just starts a brewery then the alcohol will keep his water clean and safe

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Breweries have some of the highest water filtering requirements of any industry.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You can store water in giant tortoises, just make them drink water and crack them open when you get thirsty.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      you're supposed to crack open a bear not a tortoise idioit

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone know of a good water filter to keep at home that isn't made of plastic?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Long term: glass or ceramic
      >Short term: whatever you like
      Your expectation was to be spoon fed like a nine year old.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lead. If it worked for the Roman’s and it’s good enough for me.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    maybe some nice aluminium field bottle? Im thinking about getting one. Anyone got any recommendations?

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Just drink the plastic like a good goy

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Old milk cans.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Become a well chad

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      well that's fricking 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.

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Did you really need a whole thread for this? Glass containers at home, metal containers when outdoors. That's it.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Doesn't read the thread
      >Posts something stupid anyways
      many such cases

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        And I'll fricking do it again

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