How to Carry and Store Water

When it comes to that precious resource water finding, it is only part of this problem. Your next problem will be ways to store and carry water. If you are traveling and trying to get from point A to point B, you will need water to reach your destination. Without this precious resource chances are you'll dehydrate along the way and turn into buzzard and bug food. Finding containers that you can carry water in will obviously be very beneficial in helping you to maintain a healthy body function on any journey.

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Even if you have a permanent shelter water will be an important part of it being successful. Having places to store it and ways to store it are going to be your two big adversaries. Water can be carried in many things, but you must first make sure they did not have chemicals inside of them first. Containers that were used for household cleaners, gasoline, or other purposes are not to be used for drinking water. You can fashion bags out of old plastic as well as upcycled milk containers and other types of jugs for carrying water.

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Many times you will find discarded soda bottles, sports drink bottles, and water bottles that can be reused again to carry life's precious resource. Storing water is something you will want to read up on if you are planning on doing this. Water that is stored improperly can become stale and stagnant at the same time making it very dangerous even deadly. In any survival situation staying healthy is very important and dirty or unsanitary water is the quickest way to put yourself in a crippling situation. Make sure the containers you use to carry your water in and store it are sanitized and safe to use before putting your body's essential resource into it.

 

The single best cheap/free water containers are used 2l soda bottles!
They are very light, they are very strong, even when the outside gets grubby the insides are still good!
And they last!
The plastic containers milk come in and similar with the water ones are not UV stabilised and over a short time in the sun crack!

I carry several types of waterbottle I have two stainlesssteel canteens with stainless mug and cooker stand old and sturdy with a s/s mug to drink/boil water with
Next I have a dozen odd lightweight stainlesssteel waterbottles modern cylindrical ones I have them because I got them for 50c each!
and lastly I have used 2l zero bottles, they carry the most and weigh the least but you can't boil water in them.

When up in snow country (not often ) I keep them inside my cloak to stop them freezing!

I have a katadyn water filter, puritabs, iodine, and bleach to treat sus water!

One wall in my shed is stacked eight high with 2l soda bottles full of water, about 300 in all!
Outside I have a 200l portable tank and a fixed 1,000L tank and a huge fixed sand filter, filters particulates so my katadyn don't clog up!