well; went down to the local grocery & they want $6 plus a $10 deposit for each water-cooler bottle.
So my 60 gallons would cost about $200 (w/GST).
Back to the drawing board...

At that price you can get stackable water containers online and fill them yourself.

You can start small buying a case of bottled water at a time or if you have friends that drink soda from 2 liter bottles you could ask for the empties, wash and then fill those.

2 Liter soda bottles work great. And if you've got limited shelf space they're durable enough to stack up horizontally 3-4 bottles high.

I've been reusing Clorox (tm) bleach bottles for water storage.

The big ones are about 1.5 gallons and have a built in handle. Each time I empty one, I flush it with clean water, refill it and sit it on the basement floor. In the process I remove the label and use an indelible marker to re-label them.

I don't think I'd try it if we used scented bleach, but since I do the grocery shopping it's not a problem.

As mentioned above I also have a bunch of 2 liter soda bottles filled with water. Over time (years) I plan to replace them with recycled bleach bottles, because they're far tougher than soda bottles.

Dennis

Good grief man, how much bleach do you use so that empty 1.5 gallon containers for water storage are readily available? lol

Nicodemus, got a link to those stackable water containers?
One problem with being in Canada - often can't find this sort of stuff...

We don't drink soda, but anyway my goal of 50 to 60 gallons of water would be 120 of the 2-liter bottles; kinda clumsy.

Our Agway sells both metal barrels with/without removeable lids, (which we use for burn barrels) and, for the purpose of this thread, heavy-duty 55 gal. plastic drums for $35 or so, similar to what Emergency Essentials sells currently for $75 plus shipping. The drums have been used to ship food grade syrups and juice concentrates. The drums have been labeled as being used for such.

I think these could be cleaned satisfactorily by letting some dish detergent solution sit in it overnight and then multiple rinses.

Other sources of these drums might be college/university warehouses or kitchens, university salvage warehouses, soft drink or other such bottling plants or distributors, other food packaging plants that use barrels of liquids/syrups in their product,etc. I'd avoid re-use of the drums in which floor stripper, waxes, insecticides, and other -cides are shipped.

No Agway in this neck of the woods...

from Emergency Essentials FAQ:
7. Do you ship outside the United States?
Currently we do not ship outside the United States.

http://www.uline.ca/BL_8154/Plastic-Drums?keywords=barrels

Uline.ca has 30 and 55 gallon barrels. No affiliation, other than as a satisfied customer of Uline.com...

Many thanks, UncleGoo - will check those out.

anybody know anything about : http://jug-in-a-box.com/ ?