You can't Survive
Without Water
How and Where to Store Water
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Store water in a cool, dark place in your home, each vehicle and your workplace.
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Store your water in thoroughly washed plastic, glass, fiberglass or enamel
lined metal containers. Never use a container that has held toxic substances.
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Containers must be thoroughly washed, sanitized and rinsed, and the water
you store in them, if it's from your tap, may need to be treated before
being stored. Ask your public health service or water provider for information
on whether and how to treat the water
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Avoid using
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Store-bought water past the expiration or "use by" date on the container.
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Containers that can't be sealed tightly.
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Containers that have ever held any toxic substance.
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Plastic milk bottles and cartons. They are difficult to clean and break
down over time.
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Change stored water every six months.
Making Emergency Water Safer
Untreated water can make you very sick. Besides having a bad odor and
taste, it can contain toxic chemicals, heavy metals and germs that cause
such diseases as dysentery, typhoid and hepatitis.
If you need to find water outside your home, you can purify the water
by:
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Straining it. Pour the water through paper towels, a clean cloth or a coffee
filter to remove any suspended particles.
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Boiling
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Disinfecting it (household liquid bleach: 16 drops/gal. of water, stir
& let stand 30 min.)
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Distilling it. Fill a pot halfway with water. Tie a cup to the handle on
the pot's lid so that the cup will hang right-side-up inside the pot when
the lid is upside-down without dangling into the water. Boil the water
for 20 minutes. The water that drips from the lid into the cup is distilled.
None of the above methods are perfect. According to the Red
Cross, the best solution is to use all of them. Boiling and disinfecting
it will kill most microbes but will not remove other contaminants, such
as heavy metals, salts and most other chemicals. Distillation will kill
or remove most of any remaining contaminates.
Water Sources:
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Rainwater
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Streams, rivers & other moving bodies of water
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Ponds & lakes
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Natural Springs
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Snow
The Red Cross makes the following suggestions about water
How and Where to Store Water
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