Thank you sooooo much for the excellent vids. They're very inspiring and educational. What a great idea to collect in plastic bottles and then transfer into glass when you get home. I've already had one of my beautiful 5 gallon bottles break while trying to get it down my steep stairs on a dolley. What a dramatic flood that was down my stairs.:-)

Hi Russell, How long do you store your amber glass bottles of spring water? Wondering how long the water will keep.

From Russell: I usually only keep it for a week but if you keep it cool and in a dark place (it's a living product and will go 'off' in warmth & light) you'll be good for a month. Fresh is best though.

If you're keeping it for a while you may need to vortex it to re-structire. Check out Youtube for water vortexing ideas, I use a Tornado Tube (a kids' toy) to connect 2 bottles together.

Hello, Russell, thanks for the video. Do you drink this water untreated? How can you be sure it is not contaminated? I drink spring water as well, but never feel really safe... How do you keep water at home?

From Russell: Hi Natalija, it's natural to worry that the water is contaminated because we haven't been brought up to do things this way. It's my belief that we're brought up as being so dependant on what we're told is safe by the authorities that we lose our natural ability to distinguish and really think about things.

If you find a true spring that's bringing water up from deep in the earth then I believe, as far as contamination goes, that you'll be fine. However, if you really want to make sure :-) then there are places online that you can send off a sample of water to and get it tested.

I store my water in amber glass bottles at home in the garage.