How much water does your household need?
One gallon per person per day covers drinking, cooking and basic washing. The number is the easy part. What changes from household to household is where it goes, what it weighs, and the point at which buying another container stops helping.
How much water does one person need for two weeks?
The problem here is not space, and pretending otherwise is why it never gets done
14 gallons · 117 lb
How much water does a family of 4 need for 3 days?
This is the easy one, and it is the only water page where bottled wins
12 gallons · 100 lb
How much water does a household of 2 need for two weeks?
This is the apartment case, and it is the last size that hides completely
28 gallons · 234 lb
How much water does a family of 4 need for two weeks?
Fifty-six gallons is where you have to choose: eight jugs or one drum
56 gallons · 467 lb
How much water does a family of 6 need for two weeks?
Seven hundred pounds is where placement stops being about tidiness
84 gallons · 701 lb
How much water does a family of 4 need for a month?
Half a ton of water, and the first page here that tells you to stop buying containers
120 gallons · 1,001 lb
How much of your water is not for drinking?
A single flush uses more water than you drink in a day
Worth knowing
Why storing more than two weeks of water stops working
The number nobody selling you a drum will do out loud
Worth knowing
Every figure here assumes a household that knows what it already has.
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