” OK folks, do NOT use old plastic milk jugs to store water. You can never get them clean of all the milk proteins and your water will rapidly become undrinkable. I “
There are plenty of uses, even in a Survival situation, for non-potable water — toilets still need to be flushed, and eating utensils (and persons) still need to be kept clean and sanitary...
I live in an area that experiences frequent power (and therefore pump) outages, and I learned, after my first time around, to keep separate stockpiles of ‘drinking water’ and ‘flushing water’....
Waterbed. You do NOT want to try to use water from a waterbed as drinking water, due to the algaecides used to prevent anerobic growth inside the bag- some are quite toxic to humans- and you don't want to use sodium hypochlorite or calcium hypochlorite inside a vinyl container.