Color for drinking water container?

[Charger92]

Wondering what color for drinking water storage container is recomended.
If you go light color or clear is it bad with the sun. If you go dark like black or green army style, can you see if the mold is starting to grow.
I hear aluminum and stainless need to be food grade or coated because they will on a micro level corrode and put metals into the human body.
Any thoughts?

 

[offroadchef]

I have green one bought at Wal-mart, Work well enough. There is a color code for this stuff. Have to look for the site. Blue is Water, Red is Gas and Green? for you oil burners out there. Anybody know if this correct,


Markus

 

[offroadchef]

http://www.jerrycans.org/english.htm

Not the site i was talking about,but it does give you the idea and i was wrong on the colors.

 

[Scott Brady]

If the water tank is not exposed to sun, then I like the natural color PPL tanks (you can see the level).

Exposed, they should not be clear. Sunlight will promote "funk" growth in the tank.