Many home canners I know can water at home alongside their other canning batches. When a batch isn’t quite full, they’ll add in a jar of boiling water to fill out the batch. That way, instead of doing a dedicated batch they’ll slowly build up their supply of home-canned water. That’s a totally fine method, provided the canning times are at least what’s recommended below for both water bath canning and pressure canning.) Preparing Jars for Canning Water

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I keep canning jars of water on hand for short term emergencies and power outages. I have a total of 12 gallons canned for my family of 4, which takes us through little emergencies just fine. Longer than that, for things like hurricane Irene that cut off whole towns for 2+ weeks a time, and we’ll be breaking out the water filters. Water for canning must be free of nutrients. Boiling water canning does not destroy the spores of Clostridium botulinum, so can pure water only.”The state and governmental agencies don’t actually provide any recommendations for pressure canning water. Common sense though, tells you that processing the jars at 5 pounds pressure for 10 minutes (below 1,000 feet elevation) is totally sufficient. In theory, clean potable water sealed in canning jars will last for decades. Provided the seal is still intact on the canning jar, the water inside should be good. How Much Water Should You Store?

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Later, some manufacturers started to use a nitrogen flush to remove air and bacteria from their cans to prolong shelf life to 30 years or longer, making the water suitable for long-term storage. I’ve read that if you have a lot of minerals in the water then some of those may precipitate out during canning and create a layer on the inside bottom of the canning jar. Some sources suggest first boiling the water to get that to precipitate out, then pouring off the water above leaving some of the minerals behind. That’s not for safety, but more for taste and so you don’t have a mineral film at the bottom of your jars. Also optional.

Seal the jars to finger tight with 2 part canning lids, and use a jar lifter to place the hot jars into the preheated water bath canner. You cannot reuse lids from jars of canned water for other canning projects. Save them for freezing jars of water or soup, or even for affordable dry goods storage ( related: Pantry Essentials). I think I understand your question there. You mean just use one really big pot, bring it to a boil, fill the jars, and then place them in the remaining water. It’s true that bottled water is cheap and plentiful, but you may not know that bottled water only lasts a year. After that, the bottle begins degrading and pollutes the water inside.

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By pure water, I mean potable water without anything added. Well water is totally fine, and I’m using water from my well. By “pure” I mean don’t try to create an electrolyte solution or anything like that, but canning well water is totally fine provided it’s pure/clean enough to drink. You can run it through a Berkey first if you want, but you don’t have to. I did find one source that has a tested pressure canning water recipe in Diane Devereaux’s book The Complete Guide to Pressure Canning. She suggests processing the jars at 5 pounds pressure for 8 minutes. Water stored in glass, on the other hand, will keep for decades if properly sterilized first. Canning jars are the perfect way to store water for emergency use, as it’s easy to sterilize and seal the jars at home in a water bath canner. Individual serving aluminium cans and bottles are less common alternatives to bottled water. Canned water is often used where storage or distribution systems are set up for cans. Some companies have launched water in cans, offering a more environmentally sustainable alternative to plastic bottles.You’d think something as simple as canning water would be easy to agree upon, but various state extension agencies have slightly different instructions. I read literally dozens of descriptions of the process to home can water, and each agency seems to have its own version. Let’s say you’re Canning a batch of peaches and you don’t have enough jars to fill the canner. Pop in a few jars of canned water and congrats, you just took one easy little step toward caring for yourself and family. How Do You Can Your Own Water?

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Putting up more than water? I have literally hundreds of canning recipes to fill your pantry with shelf-stable pantry staples…

Preparing for a week-long emergency, you’d need 7 gallons of water per person total. A flat of quart mason jars holds 3 gallons, so a bit more than two flats per person. That’s a lot of jars… Once the jars have processed, remove the canner from the burner, carefully take off the lid, and allow it to sit for 5-10 minutes. Pro tip:I tend to just slide it into the middle of my stove, as it weighs a ton. Altitude Adjustments - For 1,001 to 6,000 feet, process for 15 minutes. For over 6,000 feet, process jars for 20 minutes. While they should be completely clean, it’s not actually necessary to boil the jars to pre-sterilized them. According to the National Center for Food Preservation: