>> FALSE - water properly filtered and bottled in PET plastic bottles has a shelf life of at least two years.
And what if the water is not properly filtered nor stored in properly sealed PET plastic bottles? I think keeping liquid and food supplies out of sunlight is generally a good idea.
OK, whatever...
Don’t let science and facts get in the way...
Take an empty plastic water bottle, one that you bought from a store, drank and now it’s empty.
Fill it with water from your tap, screw the top back on and let it sit for 7-10 days.
Observe the results. Open it and drink it.
You’ll notice that it’s quite the same as water fresh from your tap.
This is because our tap water has chlorine in it.
For the water to go ‘bad’ because of bacterial contamination it needs:
at least 10exp3 viable bacterial colonies...
Bacteria need a food source, carbohydrates like some form of sugar and then they need other trace elements to reproduce like potassium, phosporus, calcium, iron, nitrogen and sulfur...to make proteins and so forth...
If NYC goes up in a puff of smoke, then you’ll be happy to have whatever water is left...