: 5 Gallon Drinking Water Container I'd like to buy a 5 or 6 gallon container for drinking water. I don't like plastic. One option is a glass carboy. But it's easy to break a glass carboy. Another option is a metal container.

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There's only one thing that I can think of that might fit all of your requirements (not fragile, not plastic, food safe, inexpensive), but the last one only works if you have a good source of animal organs:

a zahako (aka 'bota bag' aka 'wineskin' or 'waterskin')

If you want to make one out of normal leather, instead of internal organs, you'll need to coat the inside in pitch or wax to make sure it's water proof.

You could also potentially get commecially produed ones, but some have plastic linings. You can get ones with latex linings, but I found there to be a bit of an aftertaste for the first dozen or so uses. (and we start getting back into the issues of expense)

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Use a bucket.

Lid sold separately, about ~20 for the two of them. Alternatively, you can pick up an oak barrel. They tend to be much more expensive in the 150-200 range. You could make your own container out of clay, though price effectiveness is questionable

More to the point, I think you underestimate the utility and glory that is plastic. Any container will flavor the water, plastic least so. Plastic is the lightest especially for its durability. It's incredibly cheap. It's safe (Don't let BPA alarmists mislead you, containers exhibit safe levels or they wouldn't be approved by the FDA. It's far more worrying how much of it winds up in other places.) It doesn't rust, and is non-porous. It is transparent, which allows natural sunlight to decontaminate drinking water from harmful microbes. It is hypoallergenic.

Overall plastic is pretty neat, and I strongly recommend you reconsider your aversion to it.