How do you safely store drinking water?

[saor]

Why not get from Newlands spring if water is out or dodgy?

Which spring are you using? The one at SAB closed ages ago. Used to be one by the old age home, is it that one?

 

[Moto Guzzi]

It a difficult question to answer if you cannot test it properly.

 

[rh1]

My plan is to get a nice filtration system for my wellpoint water, then I will be okay in terms of showers and flushing. So long as the municipal pumps work that is.

 

[JustAsk]

This is because tap water is typically impure, carrying bacteria that may accumulate during storage.

Bacteria need a food source to accumulate, and to survive. If anything, your impure water will actually gets more safe with storage.

 

[bwana]

My plan is to get a nice filtration system for my wellpoint water, then I will be okay in terms of showers and flushing. So long as the municipal pumps work that is.

If you're going to the effort of filtering your water why not make it potable?

We're currently using harvested rainwater for all our needs with the exception of drinking. Easier just buying RO for that. Probably cheaper too.

 

[Priapus]

Pipe bursts all the time. It is good practice to have some form of backup. Most of SA infrastructure is not maintained or not properly maintained.

Yup, we have a few 5L containers stored. Needed it the other day when we had no water out the taps for 10hrs.

 

[Charlesjjm]

Thanks to all the helpful posts. I had a 36hr water outage a while back due to some localised issue and it would have been awesome to have 25L of water on hand even just for washing hands/bucket bath. A proper blackout would kill all the pumps and having some water on hand would be pretty helpful.

In Bryanston we are out at least once every two weeks. So I got one of these, but I don't use it for drinking water:

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

Its best to convert the drinking water into whisky and then store that, not only does it store well, it only gets better with age.

 

[Curt889]

Might not be the best way to do it or the safest im not sure but it works for us. Besides the water has so much chlorine in it already in durban.

I have a 6 liter water filter dome thing that i then empty everyday and bottle it into cleaned out used coke bottles.(i drink alot of coke) those bottles are rotated about 3-5 times before discarded and replaced. Stored in a old veggie rack. During the floods it came in handy.

I know i should invest in a Rototank