# What’s the latest on stored water expiration? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 23, 2026, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-latest-on-stored-water-expiration/1031867 "2026-07-23T08:58:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-latest-on-stored-water-expiration/1031867/3 "2026-07-23T11:02:38Z")
This thread from a few years ago may be of interest. There is no doubt that after some number of years, the plastic bottles of spring water had deteriorated to the point that they were extremely flimsy. There was some debate about the extent, if any, to which plastic had leached into the water, or conversely, whether water had leached into the plastic molecular structure. In that situation, I poured out the water and threw the bottles into recycling. > [@Old bottled water -- wow!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-bottled-water-wow/1001141): > > For obscure reasons, I’ve had a case of bottled spring water sitting on the landing at the top of the basement stairs untouched for what must be several years now. Normally I keep it in the garage in the winter and down in the basement in the summer. Now that warm weather is here it’s time to move the water from the garage down into the basement, but I figured, may as well have one of those old bottles sitting at the top of the stairs. I believe spring water is supposed to have an expiry date… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-latest-on-stored-water-expiration/1031867)._