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❖ Wash each bottle using water and dish soap.
❖ Sanitize each bottle and cap inside out with a bleach solution of 1 tsp. bleach
mixed in 1 quart of water.

o Rinse the sanitized bottle with clean water.
o Fill each bottle with tap water.
o Add two drops of standard unscented household bleach (4–6% sodium
hypochlorite).
o Empty and refresh your water storage once each year.

❖ If you’d like to be completely safe, the best containers to use are new ones.

If you’re going to choose glass containers, here are some guidelines:

❖ Make sure that your glass container is food safe. Some containers may have
been used to store chemicals, which could endanger you and your loved ones.
❖ Remember that glass can break easily. It can also crack under freezing

temperatures. Worse, it can have tiny, invisible flaws you are unable to see that
could trap contaminates in your water. Prepare proper storage.
❖ The best form of glassware that is safe for food and water is Borosilicate glass,
more popularly known as Pyrex.
❖ Watch out for soda-lime-based glass that calls itself Pyrex as it is not heat
resistant (i.e., Mason jars).

Another form of storage can be stainless steel, which was actually based on the

antibacterial properties of silver.

❖ Consider whether or not your water was treated with chlorine. Although
stainless steel is actually more durable than the first two options, chlorine alone
could corrode the container.
❖ It is better to look for steel drums that are lined a with protective coating to
lessen the risks.
❖ As with any container, make sure that your stainless steel containers are food

grade.

Filtering Water Supplies

In the early 1800s, sailors began filtering the water. The wooden casks would rot in time,
thus affecting the quality of the water. To preserve the freshness, they began adding
gunpowder to their putrid water resources. Also known as black powder, gunpowder was

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