Storing drinking water in canning jars
The biggest problem with storing drinking
water is that it takes up a lot of room....
--- Anna in Weekend
Homesteader: November
Every good homesteader
has a hundred or so quart size jars. Jars take up the same space
whether they are full of beautiful fruits and veggies or empty.
A great way to store water is in those jars once you use your precious
preserves. Water and preserves need the same storage requirements
--- dark, cool, rotated often --- so you can put those shelves to use
in the off season to store drinking water for emergency power outages.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Great idea. I typically fill a jar with water when I don't have a full canner. This keeps the jars from rattling together and in my mind makes the process more efficient since I have to heat up that space anyway and water is a better heat sink than air.
Up to now, it was just a jar. Now I'm going ot start putting a boiled lid on it so it seals. This will fill that empty jar and make sure the water is sterile.
You know how dangerous dihydrogenmonoxide is, don't you?