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Emergency water supply
Packaged drinking water that keeps for years and is ready to drink. The simplest base alongside a filter or purification tablets.
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An emergency water supply is packaged drinking water you can put away for years and forget about. No filtering, no boiling, no contact time: open it and drink. That makes it the calmest answer for the first hours and days of a disruption, before you feel like setting up equipment. As a stock it complements a water filter rather than replacing it, because a filter keeps producing for as long as there is a source to draw from.
Filters
Fosco
Stainless steel cup 300 ml with carabiner | Fosco stainless steel cup
- Weight: 62 g
- Volume: 300 ml
Seven Oceans Long-Life Drinking Water 30 × 500 ml (15 litres)
- Pack: 30 × 500 ml
- Volume: 15 L
Seven Oceans Drinking Water Ration - 500ml Default
- Volume: 500 ml
Seven Oceans 72-Hour Drinking Water Pack (1 Person) 6 Litres
- Pack: 12 × 500 ml
- Volume: 6 L
Work out how many days you want to cover and for how many people; the quantity follows from there. Store the packaging cool, dark and off a bare concrete floor, and keep it away from cleaning products and fuel, because both taste and shelf life suffer otherwise. Write the date on the box and set a reminder so you rotate the stock in good time. Combine packaged water with a gravity filter at home and with water purification tablets: the packaged water bridges the start, the filter and tablets handle the supply after that. On the move, a compact backpacking filter beats carrying bottles.
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A filter always needs a source, plus time and handling. Packaged water is ready to drink and asks nothing of you at the moment something goes wrong. The pairing is what works: packaged water for the start, a filter for the long run.
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