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for up to 20 days.

If your residence has space, you might want to

consider storing drinking water in one or more

food-quality 55-gallon (208 liter) barrels. These

barrels measure about 35" (88.9cm) high and 23"

(58.4cm) in diameter. They weigh around 22lbs

(10kg) when empty.

Figure

A

shows a non-food quality 55gal

barrel I plan to use to drip irrigate my garden.

Note the spigot I installed near the bottom. For

drinking water, I recently bought two new food

quality barrels from a friend for $60 each. One

of the least expensive online sources, BayTec,

charges about $70.

If you’d like to store drinking water in a barrel,

be sure you have an appr ...