Water Storage
- Water is essential to life, but often the most overlooked with food storage.
- It is recommended that you store 54 Lts per person (ie 2 weeks worth of water)
- Add bleach (sodium hypochlorite) to the water to prevent bacteria
- Water can be stored in plastic containers (cleaned milk bottles, drink bottles) or
larger 25 Lt containers
- Keep stored water out of direct sunlight and preferably in cooler conditions
How much water to store for your family:
| People |
Store this many Litres of Water |
| 1 |
56 |
| 2 |
112 |
| 3 |
168 |
| 4 |
224 |
| 5 |
280 |
| 6 |
336 |
| 7 |
392 |
| 8 |
448 |
| 9 |
504 |
Bleach quantities to add:
Add 0.013% of bleach compared to the water volume
(ie 20,000 ml water x 0.00013 = 2.6 ml bleach )
Bottle size in
Litres |
Bleach amount to add |
| ml |
teaspoon |
other |
| 1 |
0.13 |
|
|
| 2 |
0.26 |
|
|
| 3 |
0.39 |
|
|
| 5 |
0.65 |
1/10 |
|
| 10 |
1.3 |
1/5 |
|
| 15 |
1.9 |
1/3 |
|
| 20 |
2.6 |
1/2 |
|
| 25 |
3.2 |
2/3 |
|
| 30 |
3.9 |
4/5 |
|
| 40 |
5.2 |
1 |
|
| 50 |
6.5 |
|
|
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