>>For drinking water & food preparation, I'd start buying "bottled" water now. ... Buy a gallon or two each time you go shopping. It stores well for about a year. Some say 6 months. <<
I drink bottled water anyway , and have been trying to keep an extra supply on hand. Realistically, however, I get lazy and haven't been able to build that much of an inventory. Naturally, I do rotate what I have and drink the oldest first.
Another alternative is to call homeruns.com or peapod.com or whatever grocery services are in your area and have them deliver a few dozen gallons all at once.
However, the most important thing I've done is to save my empties for many months...gallons, soft drinks, even quarts. As Y2K approaches, I will begin to fill them with tap water, which is very good in our house (I've had it tested).
I will rotate the tap water gallons by using the old ones to fill the washing machine, and keep refilling to keep the supply fresh. By the end of November, I will have about 100 gallons of "free," safe water on hand.
I hope to use a system of larger Rubbermaid storage containers for washing bodies and clothes, and collect rain/snow water. This may be difficult because of the weight of the water, but the idea is that if it rains or snows we'll get our pails and holler "It snowed! Everybody wash their undies!"
But I also figure that they lived with a lot of B.O. in the 18th century, so we can manage somehow as well....
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