Soft Water Jug

This soft-sided water carrier brings fourteen liters of capacity to camp without taking up permanent room in your gear bin. The flexible construction collapses flat when you're not using it, then expands to hold enough drinking and cooking water for a small group on overnight trips.

The wide mouth makes filling straightforward whether you're working from a pump, a stream, or a campground spigot. Semi-transparent fabric shows volume markings printed on the outside, so you can see what you have left without opening the top. A spout at the base dispenses water with a simple open-and-close mechanism that doesn't require threading caps or fighting with valves.

A buckled shoulder strap lets you carry the jug slung over one arm when it's full, then detaches or tucks away when you don't need it. The material is soft enough to compress into odd spaces in your vehicle but sturdy enough to hold its shape when filled and set on a picnic table or the ground.

This design suits campers who want centralized water storage at a site rather than individuals filling personal bottles from a source. The fourteen-liter volume covers cooking, washing, and drinking for a group of four or five across a night and a day before you need to refill. When you break camp, the jug folds down small enough that it won't commandeer a storage bin on its own.