Water Storage Plan = Water Bricks

A plan for water, arguably the most important prep, should be diversified.  A one dimensional water plan (i.e. I’ll just grab water from the stream and boil it if necessary) is just asking for trouble.  After all what if the water is contaminated and you cannot boil it?  What if filtration devices may not be capable of making the water drinkable?  Or better yet what if your water plan consists of dozens of 55 gallon drums but you have to bug out?  You’d better be a beast in the gym because each of those barrels tips the scales in the several hundred pound range each.

I hope you are picking up what I’m putting down, a plan must be diverse in order to account for several “what if” scenarios.  Water bottles stored in the basement, water drums, water bobs, methods by which to gather and filter/treat/boil water.  That 1 year supply of freeze dried food in your basement?  Yea that’s going to need quite a bit of water in order to make it edible, unless you enjoy crunching on shards of noodles and choking down globs of seasoning salt.  Point taken?  Good.  Enter my diversification plan: the water brick, supplied from our very own Campingsurvival.com.

I have most of the previously mentioned at my disposal to support my family.  Water filters (my wife says I have a fetish), water bobs, water bottles, water containers, water barrels.  Yet I did not have any water bricks and that was something that I felt which needed to be remedied.  Let me clarify that water bricks are not the cheapest thing on the market, but they do have three distinct features which I appreciate:

1- Portability

2- Sturdiness

3- Capability for other uses

From the CampingSurvival.com website:

WaterBrick Stackable Water Container and Food Storage Container: 3.5 Gallons of Liquids or up to 27 Pounds (264 Adult Servings) of Dry Foods. Made of rugged, high density polyethylene (HDPE) with an easy grip comfort handle. These unique water containers, unlike any other, can also hold food and other life essentials while adding value by cross stacking up to 4 feet for maximum efficient storage. Wide diameter lid opening with notched easy grip lid allows for an average adult to pull stored contents out of the container by hand. Stores water, food or anything you want to keep dry or store efficiently while eliminating most food odors. 

When my 10 water bricks arrived they came in a large cardboard box.  I wondered why things were rattling around in there, it turned out the handles for each brick where inside said brick, hence the rattling.

Upon unpacking the water bricks I was rather pleased at the thickness of the plastic and stackable design.  My wife was unimpressed, she mentioned something about “ok now you have water legos to play  with.”

You can see on the above picture that I attached the carry handle to the brick.  I should note that was the ONE thing I did not like about the design, when the carry handle is on there removing (or installing) the cap is somewhat of a pain.  My recommendation is to work the cap and then install the handle.

The water bricks do not come with a spigot so I had to order one from Campingsurvival.com.  Do you absolutely need one?  No, but I like the convenience the spigot provides and at $15 it really isn’t that much of a wallet buster.

I had to include this picture of a 5 gallon jug and two water bricks (a total of 7 gallons).  Which seems easier to lug around, which would be easier to open and close and reuse?  Granted the jug on the left is FAR cheaper…but that’s why I have both options in my storage plan.

I felt the need to include pictures of various configurations.  Obviously stacking them into a giant brick is one way to do it.  Think closet or the corner of the basement.

I like to call the above the quick “grab and go” configuration.  Handles on top and easily accessible.

Sniper configuration.

German Shepherd fort configuration.

The bottom line:

These water bricks are not the most affordable things on the market but they are an essential piece to any water storage plan.  Start first with the easy stuff, bottled water from the store and water bobs for the bathtubs.  55 gallon drums are good and once you have that locked down graduate to water bricks.  They are easily transportable and have multiple configurations making them quite user friendly.  You don’t have to buy 10 at a time, even 2 or 3 would fit nicely under a bed and be better than nothing at all.

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