Containers to transport distilled water?

This might sound really silly, but distilled water for an overnight trip can be transported in anything with a lid, provided it's clean, right? I just thought I should check, since I'm spending the night at my sister's tomorrow night and since I take the bus, I am not lugging a gallon jug of water there.

Is putting it in a well-sealed water bottle going to be okay?

teresamichele wrote:This might sound really silly, but distilled water for an overnight trip can be transported in anything with a lid, provided it's clean, right? I just thought I should check, since I'm spending the night at my sister's tomorrow night and since I take the bus, I am not lugging a gallon jug of water there.

Is putting it in a well-sealed water bottle going to be okay?

When I went to the field for training Soldiers who are getting ready to deploy, I used 2 1.5 liter bottles for my water. I had no problems at all.

David

For an overnight trip there is no harm in using tap water...or...if you are concerned, just buy some whan you get to your sister's house. Under $1 gal at most food and drug stores.

If it's a short trip, I use a bottled water bottle. They have screw caps, so they're "waterproof." They come in a variety of sizes -- 8,12,16 oz. Save them after their original use. Geek that I am, I rinse them out with just an ounce or two of distilled water. And if I'm packing them inside a suitcase (for short car trips I just put them in a pocket of the cpap bag), I use a turn or two of duct tape around the lid also. (A roll of duct tape is in the cpap bag also.)

For an overnight trip I've used tap water, rinsed and dried it in the AM, still looks brand new. Don't know about more than one night though.

In my first 6 months, I travelled with mine and used tap water in:

DC 1 night
Tokyo 7 nights
DC 2 nights
Bay Area 3 nights
Buffalo 3 nights
New England 4 nights
Chicago 5 nights

25 nights around the world in 6 months and finally at the end I noticed a few small brown stains in my chamber (specifically, the metal bottom), which I have been told will easily clean out with some vinegar, that I have not gotten around to yet:
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I am still using tap water when I travel since that seems a fair enough trade off, especially since I do not want another liquid to worry about when flying. So I have to agree that I would not worry about tap water on a trip like this.

BillJ

Take or get your family to get you some bottled water; I like the Deerpark bottled water with the sports lid as Deerpark says those and the 1 gallon distilled water containers are not mfg with BPA.

xyz wrote:If it's a short trip, I use a bottled water bottle. They have screw caps, so they're "waterproof." They come in a variety of sizes -- 8,12,16 oz. Save them after their original use. Geek that I am, I rinse them out with just an ounce or two of distilled water. And if I'm packing them inside a suitcase (for short car trips I just put them in a pocket of the cpap bag), I use a turn or two of duct tape around the lid also. (A roll of duct tape is in the cpap bag also.)

Hi,

I did something very similar. I had a hotel say planned, and I didn't want to carry a big jug of distilled water around. I went to Target and Walmart looking for some containers, but I couldn't find anything that had a positive seal. I wasn't going to put something into my luggage that didn't have a positive seal on it. I ended up with some 12 ounce bottles of Diet Coke. The rinsed out the empties, and they worked just perfectly. The screw cap has a great seal. Two of them fit well in my luggage, and they lasted 2 nights each. I didn't think of the tape trick described above, but that is a great idea.

-john-

I personally use TAP water 90% of the time, when traveling IF the water has a ton of chlorine in it I use just bottled water.
Like wcj1 mentioned a little vinegar cleans the lime out in a flash...


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I can not take the credit for this as I read it in a post here....

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Anyway get your doc to write a prescription to read as follows:

"3 Empty bottles with label to Read.

Distilled Water – Use As Directed With CPAP Machine

3 Bottles 16oz Each"

So the above bottles can be used one at a time for short trips like you are planning or fill them and take them on flights...

TSA won't mess with them cause of the prescription label on the bottle....

When I went for yearly check up I asked my doc to write this and I took it to Walmart. They printed up the labels for me with my doctor name and everything on them and didn't even charge me for the bottles...

As being medical bottles nothing leaks even when turned upside down, I checked it out the first night, I filled it , turned it upside and all was well in the morning. No need for duct tape or anything else....