Ummm Wayne.... seawater has many many living organisms in it.

I have used seawater from my backyard, out past the second sandbar
and even farther out, over the years and had far more trouble that it's
worth.....

Just asking for giant algae outbreaks that come all of a sudden
from minute particles in the water, even from the same spot of collecting
that have been no problem in the past... And you have red tide type
organisms
that show up from time to time and other marine diseases that float through.

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Wayne Sallee wrote:

You can store any salt water as long as you want. It won't go bad. The
only exception is that water taken from the ocean will have some
plankton in it, and that will dye, and effect the water. Also you
don't want to get poluted water.

Wayne Sallee
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miskairal wrote on 1/9/2006 4:51 PM:

If I were to go to a beach and get salt water, how long could I store
it for and how should it be stored?

I can probably get around 800 litres in one trip (2 1/2 hours each
way) but the water would then be in 200 litre (44gallon) drums with
only a small opening in the top. It's really not practical to go that
far for just one drum of water and hubby's ute is not comfy and
airconditioned and it's summer here.

Would the water go off?


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