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#62889 - 03/26/06 02:58 PM water in survival kit
JIM Offline
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Registered: 03/18/06
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Loc: The Netherlands
How much water do you include in your survival kit?
Do you use 125 ml water packs and aqua-blox, or bottled mineral-water. Or maybe a bottle that you filled and added a purifying tab? What is it's storage life? <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I personaly use 4 500ml (total of 2 litres) mineral-water flasks [color:"red"] [/color]


Edited by JIM (03/26/06 03:01 PM)
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#62890 - 03/26/06 04:01 PM Re: water in survival kit
Brangdon Offline
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Registered: 12/12/04
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Loc: Nottingham, UK
> I personaly use 4 500ml (total of 2 litres) mineral-water flasks

That's what I keep in my bug-out bag. My every-day carry doesn't include any water at all. I have about 3 litres in my car.

I keep more water in the house for shelter-in-place. About 40 litres of bottled water, and there is probably about 140 litres in the cold water tank and some more in the hot water taknk. I also have an aquarium with about 150 litres and know of a nearby stream.
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#62891 - 03/27/06 04:32 AM Re: water in survival kit
TheOGRE Offline
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Registered: 02/11/04
Posts: 43
Loc: Northern VA
I personally use two 3L bottles of water in my bug out bags. One is a standard backpack (holds all the odd and ends), the other is a sweatshirt with the arms and waist area sewn shut. The bottles are in the arms and in the "body" area are my extra clothes. Just throw the arms over the shoulders hanging in front.

I read about this somewhere on the net, but I can't remember where.
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#62892 - 03/29/06 03:32 AM Re: water in survival kit
brian Offline
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Registered: 07/28/04
Posts: 1468
Loc: Texas
4 Liters in my BOB at the moment, in the form of 8 0.5 liter Ozarka bottles, factory sealed. Eventualy I plan to replace these with 4 1.0 liter nalgene bottles.
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#62893 - 03/29/06 04:11 AM Re: water in survival kit
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Registered: 02/16/06
Posts: 144
Loc: Kingman AZ
I live in the desert which is pretty much a different story from the rest of the county. I have a pick-up with a tool box across the back which is my PSK/BOB. I keep two cases of 750 ml bottled water under the box to keep it out of the sun (doesn't go green). I rotate the water out every month. I also keep two gallons of radiator water in old prestone jugs for the truck.

I have a safe haven with perinial water for a serious bug out, so what I have, will get me there.

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