Do you carry bottled water in your vehicle?


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I've been getting ready to take an extended drive and decided to buy another case of bottled water for my van - I noticed I was down to the last 5 from a case of 35. This is the 4th case I've put in there in 2 years since I bought my van (2x24 + 30 of 35 makes 78 pints so far). I've never carried water before and I've had my own vehicle since 1970. 40 years without, 2 years with. Most all went for drinking, with a few roadside brew ups, a hand wash or two and maybe a windshield cleaning.

If you don't carry bottled water, then you don't have any need for it. If you do, then it apparently does fill a need. Maybe I'm just an old dog that learned a new trick?
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We carry water in 2 liter repurposed soda bottles always in the truck. For us, the dog, and the radiator (JIC).
 
I never carried water either. Then I moved from the wet part of Oregon to the dry part. I put a liter collapsable bag water thingy in each car for and emergency. Now I live in the desert. I keep at least 2 quart bottles and almost always bring another quart when I leave in the morning. I'm looking for new and creative places to store it (I have some OCD about stuff lose in my vehicles). It is simply not enough for two humans for even 24 hours in July here. This is a good thread to get the message out- if you can carry a gun in your truck, you got room for some h2o too.
 
I do. I don't keep it in the truck for drinking, but I carry two gallons during the summer and on trips. For drinking, I bring fresh for each outing. I use my Nalgenes daily and just refill them with fresh filtered water...I know whats in the groundwater out here..I filter that nastiness!

I don't store it as I hate the taste of BPA (or whatever leaches into the water from the bottle) and it gets well over 120 degrees inside the truck in the summer. Heck, it's 120 outside in the shade, so in the truck it's got to be over 150. Nope, i carry fresh ice water with me.
 
In the summer I tend to take water in my work truck come winter it just becomes a frozen clump, I keep one of these in the winter... No pot, just for the heat if i break down as I can be called out at 3am and stuff usually breaks during a cold snap... Tho a 3am brew isn't such a bad idea
 
if my bush-bumming/hunting pack is in my car, i have water. if it's not, i don't carry extra unless i'm on a long trip somewhere. if it's over an hour, i'll carry a bottle. half a day, maybe a couple. all day, i'll just buy a case and throw it in back. all sorts of uses, as already mentioned.
 
Gryphonblade said:
I do. I don't keep it in the truck for drinking, but I carry two gallons during the summer and on trips. For drinking, I bring fresh for each outing. I use my Nalgenes daily and just refill them with fresh filtered water...I know whats in the groundwater out here..I filter that nastiness!

I don't store it as I hate the taste of BPA (or whatever leaches into the water from the bottle) and it gets well over 120 degrees inside the truck in the summer. Heck, it's 120 outside in the shade, so in the truck it's got to be over 150. Nope, i carry fresh ice water with me.
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Same here HATE the taste of BPA! Here it gets like 110 outside so in the vehicle it gets HOT! Hmmmm maybe i should dry my meat in the truck... LOL
 
i should always have water in the trunk. wife buys cases of bottled water every now and then they dont usally go until summer then they disappear quick on our outings
 
I always carry my ruck with me and I always have 4 .5 ltr bottles in that. I drink the water and then use the bottles for canteens. Amazing how long they last. When I travel I stock up and add a case.
 
I generally have 1-3 gallons or so of water in refilled juice, soda or tea jugs in the truck bed. In the cab up to another gallon in personal water bottles. I used to carry a case of bottled water but they kept ruptureing when on rough roads.
 
I pretty much always have a dozen bottles of water in the back of my Tahoe... when I get down to 3 bottles, I restock
 
I have a soft ice chest in my car. It will hold about
18 pint bottles of the Kirkland water. I keep 6-8 bottles
in it all the time.
 
2 liter Coke bottles have 2 minimum in the car year round, winter Invert them base up and do Not fill past the base of the neck.Why? Coke bottles have a Base Space expansion so if Frozen will not Split and Thicker Walls than the Cased water bottles squssem them and you'll see.
I keep one with a pull top from a dish washing bottle for fire {Piss on you} at camp or other rather than Dump and its gone.
 
Summer yes, winter no because it just freezes. Snow works in a pinch for a quick cleaning of the headlights or whatever in the winter, and I usually do have a jug of cold weather windshield washer fluid. If I was going on a road trip, though, I'd take water and a stove in the winter along with my basic winter survival kit and some munchies. I also take a PLB with me now, since I've read several stories in the last two years of people getting stranded on remote roads for weeks at a time before they were found, some of them dying. Cellular is sketchy up here, so I take the PLB along with my phone, just in case.
 
We always carry water. We'll freeze a 3/4 full bottle or two and stick 'em in the bottom of the cooler when road tripping... keeps the food cool, and then after it's melted we drink it.

And of course several 1L bottles, plus the innumerable half full bottles of kid drinks.
 
Nope it would freeze solid, I either carry a filter or a way to make fire and a pot to melt some snow.
 
Besides our regular gear we carry a case of water, pop and from time to time beer and other "drinks". We also carry enough water to wash our hands and clean up after cooking.

Jon.
 
I make bottle nets out of 550 cord for large repurposed water bottles/gatorade/soda bottles and use those. I also usually have a big plastic jug of water in the trunk during the summer (the jug was actually from one of those butt-leakage solutions they make you drink when you get scoped:mad: That stuff tastes like crap!).

PMZ
 
And oh yeah...I always do the same as Akabu and I save every Dawn dishsoap flip-top cap I come across...lol! They're handy:)

PMZ
 
On the BPA contamination, my girlfriend told me this is expedited by hot temps and degradation of the plastic due to sunlight. She also said she heard that BPAs when degrading produce estrogen mimicking chemicals, anybody got any hard facts on this? In any event, for those of us who do reuse plastic bottles, it might be a thought to change them out frequently.
 
Maybe its already been said. But I use USGI 5 gal water cans when I'm camping etc. They are heavy duty plastic, but I also have a few Germany metal cans. I got them new at a gun show about 5 years ago for 10 bucks each. But I do not leave water in my car, just because of freezing temps in the winter
 
Always have water that I'm drinking for the day, in two 20 oz. nalgene bottles. Since most of my driving is local, that pretty much suffices. Whenever I take an extended trip, I often have at least a couple of gallons combined, whether it's reused 2 liter bottles, small bottled water, milk jug, etc. Ultimately for me the amount of water to take is determined by how far away I am from the nearest resource.
 
I always keep a small cooler full of bottled water in the truck. (holds about 15) You never know when it will be needed, also shelter tarp and mre's, If they happen to break, the cooler will keep everything else from getting wet.
 
We always carry water on trips. For us to go shopping or anything it's an hour drive so we normally pack a small cooler for the little day trips with water and a couple of our sodas. It saves us a lot of money because we don't stop at convenience stores and pay those outragous prices.
 
I carry 2 cases in my personal car, and 4 cases in the trunk of my patrol unit.
 
I always have my two Nalgene bottles full of water if I'm going farther than into town. In the summer or before a longer trip I usually add a few 2qt USGI canteens as well.
 
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