Bottled water well out of date.

[Flatlily]

During lockdown I bought in some extra emergency supplies. Mostly tinned things and pasta etc that went into my usual food rotation and was used long ago.

I have 6 x 2 litre bottles of water in my garage that are still there. We recently had a short water outage and I remembered the bottles. In the event, the water came back quickly and we didn't use them.

I've been wondering what I would have done if it had taken longer. Would you drink out of date water? Obviously it's not going to go 'off' but it's been in those bottles for long time, in extremes of temperature in the garage.

I guess my concerns are whether it's OK to drink from a hygiene pov or should be boiled, or perhaps shouldn't be drunk at all becuase of plastics leeching?

Maybe keep it for washing in an emergency?

Do you keep in any emergency bottled water? I don't usually use bottled water at all, and buying it just to replace it regualrly seems daft, and unnecessary use of plastic bottles, but I think we'd have been glad to have something had the outage gone on longer.

If it's been stored in extremes of temperature I wouldn't drink it because of the plastic leeching. I would use it for perhaps watering the garden or plants.

I don't generally buy bottled water but
I do have a few small bottles which I bought in a multipack when I needed a sealed bottle to take into a sporting event. Having seen your post OP i will definitely check the BBD of those .

It’s the plastic that goes off not the water, I mean you won’t get sick drinking it but it will be full of micro plastics by now if it’s out of date!

Yes, that was my concern. But I wonder how much difference a one off in an emergency use would make, in a world where we're exposed to microplastics all the time anyway.

The actual water won't 'go off' but the plastic bottles will start to degrade and could leech chemicals into the water. Personally I wouldn't drink it unless it go to the point I was so dehydrated that the risk from not drinking was higher (very unlikely in uk)