- 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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