Thoughts on Blue Can Emergency Drinking Water?
CamilleContributor - May 8, 2021I was doing some research on how to safely store a supply of emergency water in my vehicle. I am moving to a more tropical climate to start graduate school and temperatures there can climb quite high for the majority of the year, and because it’s a hurricane/flood zone it’s important to have a supply of emergency water in the vehicle in case I need to evacuate.
I have read through the Best Emergency Water Storage Containers for Your Home article by The Prepared team and I think it’s very well researched, but I have concerns about using the home storage containers recommended (which are plastic) for months at a time in the incredibly high temperatures found in a car in the tropics. Even though it may not be super dangerous to my health to be drinking water stored in plastic at high temperatures for a long period of time in an emergency scenario, I’d still like to avoid it, and I worry about the plastic warping in the heat and losing it’s integrity. I was also looking for a method of water storage that was easy to grab and drink while driving, no pouring out of a larger, potentially heavy and bulky container required.
I found Blue Can Premium Emergency Drinking Water on Amazon. It basically looks like a pack of aluminum soda cans, except they are filled with water that the Blue Can company claims has a shelf life of 50 years. Reviews on Amazon are quite mixed. It’s about $2 a can after tax and shipping. Does anyone have any experiences (good or bad) with using Blue Can Emergency Drinking Water in their preps?
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RedneckContributor
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Gideon ParkerStaff
That’s so great that you have researched about and are putting in the time to be prepared. Being in a hot tropical area certainly cuts down on the number of ways you need to be prepared, you don’t have to worry about freezing temperatures and your cans exploding from expansion.
There is one user on this forum who has mentioned owning those Blue Can’s, I hope she sees this post and can comment. I’ve never tried them, but at first glance they don’t look to be that bad.
Since they are $2 a can, I would have one or two large stainless steel canteens in your car. (we did a review on some good ones) That way if you are just sorta thirsty you can drink from those and then refill them again. I think I would hold my thirst and not drink enough if I knew that by quenching my thirst on a normal day would cost $2 from one of those cans. And then I would have a couple extra cans in my car on top of those two stainless steel canteens for more long term storage (like if the disaster keeps going on for a couple days), or just to hand to a passenger or stranger who you don’t want to be drinking out of your canteens.
The cans are rated to 150 degrees and according to this website, your car’s dash can get to that temperature in the summer. So keep these cans in the trunk or under a seat to keep them cooler.
Not necessary, but if you do keep a single can under your seat, you may want to rubber band a tongue depressor to it to prevent it from constantly rolling around in your car like this person did to a round package. I thought it was pretty smart.
I wish you the best of luck in your move and hope it’s good for you.
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