Standard 3.5 Gallon - 2 Pack

Holds 7 gallons of water

Product Details

WaterBrick Stackable Water Container and Food Storage Container: 3.5 Gallons of Liquids or up to 27 Pounds (264 Adult Servings) of Dry Foods. Made of rugged, high density polyethylene (HDPE) with an easy grip comfort handle.

These unique water containers, unlike any other, can also hold food and other life essentials while adding value by cross stacking up to 4 feet for maximum efficient storage. Wide diameter lid opening with notched easy grip lid allows for an average adult to pull stored contents out of the container by hand. Stores water, food or anything you want to keep dry or store efficiently while eliminating most food odors.

Product Specifications

• Size: 9" W x 18" L x 6" H (shaped like rectangular blocks)
• Product Weight when Empty: 2.52 pounds each
  
• Stacking Strength: due to 2 interior conical reinforcement columns
• Interlocking Strength: they interlock using their male and female connectors (cross stack for safety)
• Wide Lid Opening is 3 1/4'' in diameter - can fit average adult hand to reach inside
• Full rubber gasket creating a tight seal is included inside the lid
• Recommended Stacking Height: 4 feet
• Meets FDA standards and is BPA free
• Average wall thickness of container is approximately 3/32 of an inch (.090)
• 16 Standard Size WaterBricks is equivalent to a 55 gallon drum
• Made to look like a real building block, rounded corners with texture & color to be aesthetically pleasing, while showing like a finished product
  

Benefits:

• Grab and go convenience - easy to carry handle.
• Use at home or on the go.
• Great for camping or when you have to leave in a hurry.
• Small enough to tuck away into tight spaces.
• Peace of mind.
• Air tight - add an oxygen absorber to dried foods for a long shelf life

Water Requirements:

It is recommended to use approximately 1 gallon a day for drinking, food preparation and basic hygiene or 1/2 gallon a day for drinking only.

Content Weights for Each WaterBrick

Water – 30 pounds; Rice – 27 pounds (264 adult servings); Beans – 28 pounds; Sugar – 26 pounds; Pet Food – 18 pounds; Sand – 48.5 pounds; 9mm rounds (5,000) – 120 pounds; .223 caliber rounds (2,100) – 57 pounds

Specific Uses	Description
Short or Long Term Storage	Store water and food for: o 72 hour emergency grab and go kit o Camping – minimizes food odor discharge so animals not attracted and minimizes animal invasion due to durable HDPE plastic o Boating or Other Outdoor Activities o Insert Bungee Cord thru center posts to strap to an ATV or other vehicle
Block of Ice	Fill two-thirds with water & freeze: o Camping, Boating or Other Outdoor Activities o Preceding a storm, use to minimize food spoilage in fridge and keep medications cold
Store Product to keep dry in case of a flood	o Ammo o Paint Balls or Air Soft Pellets
Efficient Organized Storage	o Stacks like a cube to eliminate wasted space o For further stability, insert a PVC pipe down the center posts
Parapet Walls or Bunkers	o Paint Ball or Air Soft courses – easy to change from one day to another to add new challenges for advanced groups o Military – can airdrop into combat zones to deliver needed supplies but reuse for bunkers
Hunting Blinds	o Whether temporary or permanent, they can easily anchor in the ground and are easy to move
Flood barrier	o Fill with water so no need to deliver sand and easier to clean up; just dump out water o Then reuse for something else versus sand bags that get put in a land fill
Trombe Wall	Fill with water that heats in the sun and radiates the heat into your home for warmth during cooler nights
Creative Storage Applications	Some examples: o Coffee table or End table (while cross stacked) with a piece of glass on top and a table cloth to conceal the WaterBricks and its stored contents o Hide under beds or Stack up in closets
Children’s Play Fort or Toy Storage	Use to build life size forts that can change as easily as your child’s imagination or stack and store small toys.
Sand Bag	Used for Shooter Houses or Military Applications o Fill with Sand or Pea Gravel similar to how traditional sand bags are used. o WaterBricks are more effective because the plastic blunts the tip of the bullet and starts to fragment it before hitting the Sand or Pea Gravel inside

WaterBricks can be cross-stacked up to 4 feet high and take up less space than standard 55 gallon drums.
Some examples of creative storage applications using WaterBricks include:

• Bedrooms – closets, underneath beds, in the corner of the room, behind headboards
• Kitchen – above stove, above refrigerator, under the sink, space above cabinets
• Living and Family Rooms – replace coffee table, between the walls and the furniture
• Closets – bedrooms, hall, guest rooms, linen, utility

WaterBrick containers can be easily accessed for portable and clean water during emergency situations as part of a 72 hour grab and go kit. They are ideal for Preppers, survivalists and even families who are preparing for upcoming natural disasters or power outages.

• Store emergency water discreetly inside homes instead of outside in unsafe temperatures
• Collectively cross stacks for bulk storage, easily configures for your limited space, individually easy for grab & go

Structural Engineering Certification by Wilson Structural Consultants, Inc.

Date: May 20, 2009

Ardaman & Associates, Inc a Geotechnical, Environmental Materials Consulting firm issued their 18 page report that proved WaterBrick to be capable of withstanding the structural requirements to be used in building a range of facilities. This testing represents a significant milestone as it shows that a WaterBrick wall could support trusses spanning up to 85 feet! Given that our buildings would all have truss spans well within this parameter, WaterBrick can support point loads from wood trusses for a variety of truss spans with or without a top plate. This is a testament to WaterBrick's structural capabilities.

How to Properly Store Water Long Term in Storage Containers

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Properly storing water long term for emergency situations is vital in food grade BPA free water containers. Improperly treated water can lead to high bacteria and algae levels that are potentially life-threatening or fatal. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):

“You should have at least a three-day supply of water and you should store at least one gallon of water per person per day. A normally active person needs at least one-half gallon of water daily just for drinking. Additionally, in determining adequate quantities, take the following into account:

• Individual needs vary, depending on age, physical condition, activity, diet, and climate.
• Children, nursing mothers, and ill people need more water.
• Very hot temperatures can double the amount of water needed.
• A medical emergency might require additional water.”

FEMA goes on to explain the how to prepare your own water storage container:

“It is recommended you purchase food-grade water storage containers (like WaterBrick containers) from surplus or camping supplies stores to use for water storage. Before filling with water, thoroughly clean the containers with dishwashing soap and water, and rinse completely so there is no residual soap.”

Also recommended is adding a water preserving agent such as Water Preserver™ or Oxy-Stabile Water Preserver. Both of these products state that users can effectively store water for 5 years by purifying and keeping water bacteriologically safe. These products can be used with regular tap or bottled water and are highly recommended by users.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti March 2013

It all started as a challenge. A dare if you will.

Wendell Adams was a successful homebuilder and golf course developer in Florida when he met Jean-Michel Cousteau and heard him lecture on the world water system. In a conversation with Cousteau, Adams asked a fateful question, “How can I help?”

“Find a way to deliver fresh water to the millions of people who die everyday around the world because they lack fresh water or have tainted water,” Cousteau answered. A centuries-old distribution dilemma dropped in the lap of a water novice.

Behind a perpetual smile and a slight Southern accent, Wendell is just the type of man to take up the gauntlet when it’s been thrown down.

His solution, after much research, ended up being one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” moments. You need to get water—and food and medicine—to places without a pipeline, distribution system, often in rugged terrain with few roads or airports, and often
after natural disasters. A container. Tough, light-weight and multi-purpose.

Adams came up with WaterBrick. Think of a “Lincoln Log” when you were a kid. A molded plastic, hollow container with a lid and a handle. But shaped to interlock and stack efficiently. WaterBricks can be filled with water, food, medicines, seeds. You name it. Stacked on palettes, they can be dropped by parachutes from an airplane after a natural disaster or in a warzone and survive the landing. They can be trucked hundreds of miles without leaking and use every inch of truck bed space.

So, now desperate people have the minimal basics. Clean water. Food. Medicine. But, Adams had a further idea. These people often lived in tent cities or had no shelter at all as refugees displaced by disaster or war. Once the WaterBricks are emptied of their contents, they can, of course, be reused. They can also interlock and, filled with sand or gravel, be stacked to make fully weight-bearing shelters, MASH hospitals, latrines, even schools. They don’t require tools to assemble.

“The humanitarian issue was critical for me,” Adams explained. “We can do corporate social good.”

WaterBricks began rolling off the line in 2008. Then, IT happened. January 2010. A powerful earthquake pancaked Haiti. Two hundred thousand people killed and more than 1 million displaced in a country which has had nothing to begin with. Working through rescue services, NGOs and UN relief efforts, WaterBricks finally arrived in Haiti with strong corporate sponsorship and the out-of-pocket efforts of Adams.

“You can’t imagine the devastation and the chaos,” Adams remembers. “Haiti is a country that doesn’t function on the best of days. This was a Hieronymus Bosch painting with real people in it.”

As in all such disasters it seems, worldwide media attention was 24/7. Then, the cameras left for the next crisis du jour and the Haitians were left behind. The world blinked. That’s when the next unnatural disaster arrived.

A small cadre of relief workers brought the cholera bacteria with them to a weakened nation with no infrastructure or capacity to handle it. Cholera is often bourn by infected water.

There have been 470,000 cases of cholera in Haiti and over 6,600 deaths—old and very young, women and children, families.

Now, WaterBricks have become tools of long-term survival, keeping clean water separated from water tainted by disease.

“We’ve shipped about 17,000 so far and we keeping looking for partners who can help with funding and making sure the containers actually get to them people who need them,” Adams says. Sometimes it’s discouraging. In this place, you can destroy everything but corruption, greed and the linings of pockets.

None of this stops Adams. The demand for WaterBricks has surpassed supply worldwide. He’s trying to find more manufacturing capacity—this time in Asia. Why? Fukushima, Japan. March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami triggers a nuclear reactor meltdown. Towns wiped out and water laced with radiation. Even now, the sheer fear of another such event has people throughout Asia wanting WaterBricks to store just in case.

In a footnote, researchers and students at New York University are using WaterBricks for radiation tests of gamma and neutron test walls for water at nuclear power plants.

There’s a vernacular for everything. “WaterBrick” is a good, descriptive brand name. To Adams, it’s a “safe storage intervention product.” It makes us remember. On the faces of small children carrying an “intervention product,” this is very serious business.