If you rinse out your 2 liter plastic bottles and fill 'em with water, keep for emergency
@lookatdesktop (27156)
Dallas, Texas
March 2, 2016 1:20pm CST
A friend told me he read sometime a while ago, that you can easily rinse out 2 liter coke bottles, fill them with tap water and place them standing right behind the sofa and other furniture against the walls to hide them and have them 24/7 for emergency water supply in case of a black out. I like this idea. The water will have to be used within so many days or it will grow algae and turn green or yellow and be undrinkable but still it can be used to water plants.
Even if there is no water problem as far as flow is concerned, during some types of emergencies where a blackout is an end result like an explosion or a terrorist attack, the question to ask might be, Is the water safe to even drink?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Mar 16
We don't use two litter bottes and in case of a true emergency we have a pool full of water.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Mar 16
@lookatdesktop It surely is drinkable - you have chlorine in your drinking water I bet. We keep our chlorine level spot on - you don't smell it in our water. We compared our pool water to our drinking water at our last home and the drinking water had three times as much chlorine.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
2 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill You are an exception. In many cases my friend's father often over chlorinated his pool and yes the levels of chlorine in drinking water can be higher than the recommended level.
@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
2 Mar 16
A swimming pool full of water would be chlorinated and would that be drinkable?
@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
2 Mar 16
In that case you could easily re-fill several bottles with tap water just for emergency water. Another idea is to use gallon milk jugs for the same thing.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
2 Mar 16
@lookatdesktop
Yes we could refill the bottles and set them aside.
