Forget the water. Store several large containers of safe drinking water and the disinfection supplies to refill them over and over.
Store dry and wet together. Jugs of water, cans of wet food, and any other containers of liquid should always be stored outside of bins and buckets of food. If they leak, the food may get ruined and you wouldn’t know it until you needed the food (and opened it). I recently learned this one the hard way — a jug of water leaked inside a bin of dry food and converted it into a bin of black mold.
Food expires? Write the expiration date on food cans and packages with a marker for easier inspection, and check your food seasonally for aging items.
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