Water Shelf Life In the United States, plastic bottled water, which is commonly used for emergency water storage, is stamped as having a shelf life of 2 years. That being said, the US Department of Homeland Security and the American Red Cross both encourage the public to change bottled water kept as an emergency water supply every six months. As far as emergency water storage goes, the expense and the trouble of having to repeatedly change your emergency water supply certainly add up. Canned water, like our brand ‘Emergency Drinking Water,’ has a water shelf life of 30 or more years. Why bother with bottled water that you have to change regularly, when you can buy canned water and store it for a lifetime? You can buy it just once and then forget about it! It’ll be there for you, safe to drink if you ever need it in the case of an emergency. Canned water has been used by the US military and navy for decades, since World War II, as their choice as an emergency water supply. It is the military’s cans from the 50’s that have proven the extensive water shelf life of canned water. We acquired these government issued cans of water from the 50’s and sent them to a testing lab to have the water’s quality examined. Amazingly, the canned water was still safe to drink, proving a water shelf life of at least 30 years. |
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