Storage
An overview of choosing, filling, rotating, and maintaining emergency and long-term household water supplies in containers.
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How to Build a Water Storage System
The first water storage system worth building is a barrel, a spigot, and a calendar. Two drums in the garage Start with treated water in a container you can seal. That is the whole system. A hand pump sits on the shelf next to them because a drum without a way to get water out…
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Sanitizing Water Containers Before Use
A man at the co-op last month had a pickup bed full of blue barrels and a question for me. He said his brother told him to rinse them out with bleach and let them dry in the sun, but his wife said that was how you got sick. He wanted to know who was…
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Household Water Storage and Rotation
The first thing I see most mornings is the gauge on the pressure vessel in the utility room. It hangs off a tee by the well line, needle seeming to hold around fifty pounds unless something is wrong. Last October it seemed to bounce between twenty and sixty, fast, like a heartbeat. The pump was…