Drinking water

ibra0078 · 03-02-2018, 07:28 PM

When using a water filter do people still drink the water when connected to live water source and or from the holding tank. I personally bring water jugs whenever we go camping.

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wags999 · 03-02-2018, 07:40 PM

Depends on where your camping. In many campgrounds they have municipal water from a local town, which is checked on a regular basis. If you camping in a more remote area, many times that is a well or even water hauled in and kept in a large tank till used.

We typically use the local water for everything except drinking. We bring bottled water for that purpose. We do always use a filter on our incoming water line, in part to remove particulate and some contaminates.

Again I would bring water or use the local water depending on where you go. Private wells are not checked like a municipal water system and, even if "good" water, it can contain different elements from your home and some people may have issues.

Good Luck..

Kim Gass · 03-02-2018, 07:43 PM

We drink it out of the tap unless it tastes bad
We’ve never had City water only well water for 70 years
I refuse to buy bottled water as our neighbors who are Nestke have tapped into our aquifer and tell us we have no water rights
So far enough water for all

nighthawk87 · 03-02-2018, 08:51 PM

We use an inline filter outside and a faucet filter on the sink

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CampNow · 03-02-2018, 09:01 PM

Although we fully sanitize our freshwater tank for each major trip, and connect to the local water tap when we use full-hookups while on the road or in-place vacationing, we never drink this water. We purchase bottled water or bring reverse-osmosis water from home for drinking/cooking purposes. We feel there's just too much contamination potential when repeatedly installing/removing/storing the pressure regulator, filter, and hoses---not to mention the unknown water quality at some locations throughout the country.

There are many folks who have drunk water out of their trailer's system for years with no problems, but nonetheless, it's what we feel most comfortable doing

Wireman · 03-03-2018, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by CampNow

Although we fully sanitize our freshwater tank for each major trip, and connect to the local water tap when we use full-hookups while on the road or in-place vacationing, we never drink this water. We purchase bottled water or bring reverse-osmosis water from home for drinking/cooking purposes. We feel there's just too much contamination potential when repeatedly installing/removing/storing the pressure regulator, filter, and hoses---not to mention the unknown water quality at some locations throughout the country.

There are many folks who have drunk water out of their trailer's system for years with no problems, but nonetheless, it's what we feel most comfortable doing

X2 On short trips, a week or less, take 4 gallons of home tap water in gallon jugs and always keep bottled water stored for use.

Longer trips buying bottled water for drinking & cooking is what we do. Gallon jugs for cooking and the bottles for drinking.

I have a in line filter to screen contaminants for the water supply.

I have some medical issues and don't want to temp fate by drinking water from the RV tank or a unsure local water supply.

Obviously a cost factor with the bottled water but we just deal with it.

Sundancer330 · 03-03-2018, 09:54 AM

Bottled water only for drinking.

SouthCo · 03-03-2018, 10:02 AM

We use a water filter but still take bottles of water to drink.

Siamese · 03-03-2018, 10:13 AM

Like some others, we consider the source before drinking.

If we have a good source, like a municipal supply (not Flint, though), we run it through our little blue Camco filter, and then use it for everything but drinking. We do use it for cooking, though.

If the source is kind of iffy, we don't use it for cooking, but we'll still brush our teeth with it. And still use the Camco filter, of course.

Edit: I won't say that what we do necessarily makes sense, but it's what we do.

cekkk · 03-03-2018, 12:11 PM

For short stays I use a basic filter to avoid sediment. For longer stays I add an older version of this softener, below. But our drinking water, including for the dogs, is always bottled.
https://www.flowpur.com/html/rv-pro10000.html

ibra0078 · 03-03-2018, 12:12 PM

I figured majority of the people bring their own jugs for drinking. Thanks everyone

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spoon059 · 03-03-2018, 01:01 PM

Same here... bottles or jugs of water for drinking. Use park water for showers, toilets, brushing teeth, etc. My wonderful bride has a sensitive water palette... she won't drink water unless it tastes perfect to her.

Victoria · 03-03-2018, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundancer330

Bottled water only for drinking.

us too. too much risk of contamination.

Camper_bob · 03-03-2018, 02:32 PM

We bring a 5-gallon water cooler jug. Costs $1.25 to fill it, and it's more than enough drinking water for three of us for the whole weekend. I have 2 jugs if we're going to be out for a long time, and I can usually find a water vending machine somewhere to refill our jug when needed. Those vending stations are typically RO water.

We have a manual "Dolphin" pump to get the water out of the jug. Biggest challenge there is keeping the kid from playing with it!

For the water we put in our tank, I use the tap water from our home with the blue Camco filters. I sanitize that tank and the water lines with a bleach solution about 2x per year. For municipal water at the park, I use the filter. We drink and cook and make ice with the jugged water, everything else is tank water or "city" water at the park. I will drink the tank water in a pinch as long as it's the stuff from home.

My dad buys flats of bottled drinking water, and it drives me crazy with all those bottles everywhere! I'll use bottles occasionally for convenience, but he uses them exclusively. I'm converting him though...

Paullin · 03-03-2018, 03:48 PM

We use bottled water for drinking, cooking, brushing teeth, etc.

I once read an article about campgrounds adjacent to cattle pastures. Apparently containments from cattle can leach through the ground and into CG wells.

RVhiker · 03-03-2018, 06:50 PM

We drink campground water and always have. We had our first "RV" in 1975 or so, and before that we tent camped. We have never had an illness that was linked to bad water. If campground water is not available, we drink water from our fresh water storage tank - which probably came from some campground somewhere.

One source of information about drinking water safety: http://www.allaboutwater.org/

rjackson · 03-03-2018, 09:02 PM

ditto what RVhiker said, except the 1975 part. we drink campgro
und water, don't use a filter.can't stand the "plastic" taste of bottled water.

Atlee · 03-04-2018, 06:34 AM

We bring bottled water while traveling. Use it for brushing teeth, drinking, or cooking. However, on occasion, I've either just forgotten or didn't have bottled water close by and poured water from the faucet. Haven't croaked yet. Haven't gotten sick yet either.

JohnWedell · 03-04-2018, 07:33 AM

We cook and drink only with Poland Spring water.

John from Central Florida · 03-04-2018, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by CampNow

...we never drink this water. We purchase bottled water...for drinking/cooking purposes. There are many folks who have drunk water out of their trailer's system for years with no problems, but nonetheless, it's what we feel most comfortable doing

Ditto. In our case it's a holdover from our popup days when we just didn't trust the freshwater drinking systems in our old campers.

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