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Water storage for dummies


Ok, that would be me.

I know that you can use juice containers, bottled water bottles, etc. to store water.  I know you have to santize them before use (the church website gives a bleach mixture recipe to clean them).  What I don't know is how to adjust that recipe for the various size bottles that I have. 

So, my question is can I use one bottle that has the right bleach mixture (for cleaning) and then pour that same mixture into a smaller bottle to clean it?  Example, I have a quart size juice container and clean it by using 1 teaspoon of bleach in the container filled with water.  Can I then pour that same mixture from that container into my gallon container to clean the gallon container?  And then can I use it in my 20 oz water bottle to clean it?



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I would think it would be fine, since the ratio of water to bleach will be the same....

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Dyany is right, it's all about proportion.

Water hubby says you could easily use the water to sanitize several containers as long as they're pretty clean to start out with, but when I asked how you'd know if the bleach was still effective after several disinfections, he started talking about free chlorine residuals... yeah. He lost me after that.

In essence, go ahead and disinfect three containers with one batch of bleach.

(And am I allowed to say that this is one of those areas where metric is so much easier? A quart is 950 ml, and a teaspoon is 5 ml, which puts your bleach concentration at .5%. So if you had a 450 ml container, you times that by .005 and tadaa! that's the milllilitres you add.)

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Hah! But how many milliliters in a hogshead!
I know that the metric system makes sense in several ways. But I'm a curmudgeon. I'll stick with the imperial system.

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