PREP Water storage. Been to Costco online lately?

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Double_A

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Costco online site http://www.costco.com has some very interesting products related to water storage.

I would encourage you to visit and search for "water storage"

One interesting item is their self-filling empty water pouches constructed from reverse osmosis membrane material. Place in contaminated water and they will fill themselves with pure water

Another item is their drum water pump with radiological material filters.
 
vessie

vessie

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TerryK

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They have almost everything you might want to buy. Not the best prices, but not the worst either, and all shipping is included and you can just take it back to your local costco if it isn't what you want.
I have bought several things like water barrels, some buckets of food. Imight use them next time I want to buy O2 absorbers and mylar bags as well as gamma lids for buckets.
I like buying their heavy or bulky items because the shipping is free and returns are always accepted no questions.
Go to their site and search "emergency supplies" and you will see pages of stuff.

Oh and they have dozens of different solar panel setups also.
 
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Double_A

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shipping is free :)

A 55 gal water drum, shipped from Utah to Calif arriving on my doorstep 3 days after ordered, no charge for shipping
 
Red Baron

Red Baron

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I don't recall our local Sam's Club ever having "prep" type items but then again I stopped going there a few years ago.

Anybody finding prep stuff at Sam's Club lately? Costco is too far away for us.
 
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night driver

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The hydropack is NOT Reverse Osmosis but FORWARD Osmosis and leaves you with, NOT "pure water" but a flavored electrolyte drink...

Reverse osmosis requires water under pressure so that the pure water can be "encouraged" to pass through FROM the contaminated side to the pure side, leaving the contaminates behind, which would have been the normal pass direction for the water.

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The simplest way to prepare your family for emergencies is to stock up on the HydroPack™ bucket. It contains 108 self contained emergency water filter pouches that are easy to use. Just put the HydroPacks into a contaminated water source and through osmosis, the filters fill themselves. The finished drink is an electrolyte enhanced sports drink for improved hydration and performance and comes in assorted flavors.
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TerryK

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night driver said:
The hydropack is NOT Reverse Osmosis but FORWARD Osmosis and leaves you with, NOT "pure water" but a flavored electrolyte drink...

Reverse osmosis requires water under pressure so that the pure water can be "encouraged" to pass through FROM the contaminated side to the pure side, leaving the contaminates behind, which would have been the normal pass direction for the water.

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Good point ND. Although most people don't really understand the difference between forward and reverse osmosis. They just key into the term OSMOSIS and think good.
As you said, all the water is doing is flowing from the more dilute side to the side where the electrolytes are more concentrated.
Instead of outside physical pressure this natural force of flow is a slight amount of osmotic pressure. It doesn't work very fast but it's a pretty good idea.
I don't know if most people understand that this is a one shot deal once you open the bag and use the water.
 
DannyBoy

DannyBoy

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Double_A said:
shipping is free :)

A 55 gal water drum, shipped from Utah to Calif arriving on my doorstep 3 days after ordered, no charge for shipping
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How much did it did it cost you? I need one... punched a hole in one of mine... Sams is 83 bucks... shipped to a local store.
 
bassaholic

bassaholic

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Does it show anywhere the ingredients in those hydropacks?

Wondering what kind of sugar is in it...aspartame, sucralose, cane...? I dont see it anywhere.
 
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Double_A

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night driver said:
The hydropack is NOT Reverse Osmosis but FORWARD Osmosis and leaves you with, NOT "pure water" but a flavored electrolyte drink...

Reverse osmosis requires water under pressure so that the pure water can be "encouraged" to pass through FROM the contaminated side to the pure side, leaving the contaminates behind, which would have been the normal pass direction for the water.

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Thanks for the clarification. My use of the term "reverse Osmosis Membrane material" was meant to help describe the pouch material not the specific process. Prior employment positions required me to monitor and on occasion make adjustments to a large scale RO system producing several hundred gals per minute with a resistivity very close the the theoretical limit which is essential for semiconductor manufacturing, so I am not totally unfamiliar with the process.
 
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Double_A

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DannyBoy said:
How much did it did it cost you? I need one... punched a hole in one of mine... Sams is 83 bucks... shipped to a local store.
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$119, plus you get a bung wrench and a decent pump that screws in

Follow the link and see if it's worth it for you
 
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cjoi

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Was just thinking that if someone only had these mylar bags in cardboard boxes to store their water, that they might want to wrap each box in a heavy garbage bag to keep the boxes from getting damp or to isolate any leaking.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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A 55 gallon water drum for $120 ????

I have EIGHT that I'll sell for $30 each, and FOUR 55 gallon steel grums for gas that I'll sell for $40 each. All bought brand new. You just go get them in Hudson, WI.
 
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