Anyone know about water additives for storage?

[reapur]

Hi,
I got a 55gallon blue barrel and I was just going to fill it with tap water and I'm very unclear on how to treat the water while it's in storage and whether or not I need to boil the water or filter it if I have to pump it out and use it.

Any general guidelines on this?

thanks

[ChunkyMonkey]

water is water.. put some chlorine or tap water is fine. I have a year old tap water in 375 tank.. taste the same.

[Wulf202]

I know a little.

If it's good out of the tap it'll be fine in the barrel. Keep the lid on and out of the sun.

It may go stale but it will be completely drinking safe.

I need to put my water class on youtube.

[ChunkyMonkey]

I need to put my water class on youtube.

Please do!

As far as taste.. the difference is so minuscule. It's like distilled water.

[Heuristic]

Funny...I just changed out my (10) 6 gal water jugs Sunday.

After 1-1/2 years, they had a slight plastic smell but the taste was the same.

[reapur]

cool. I've been hesitant to fill my barrel. But here I go...

[hollohas]

Info above is good.

A little good info here:

http://www.fema.gov/plan/prepare/water.shtm

They mention adding a little regular bleach if you are using well water.

And a little more detail on using bleach and storing water here:

http://www.lds.org/family/family-wel...lines?lang=eng

[Wulf202]

some of the info on the lds link is wrong.

[hollohas]

some of the info on the lds link is wrong.

Please elaborate.

[SA Friday]

some of the info on the lds link is wrong.

Can you elaborate?