Drinking water?

Ok, based on older posts it looks like there's many answers to my question. :)
Looks like most people buy the 5 gallon jugs. Perhaps that 'll be the best option for us too and use a Walmart filter to put 'pretty clean' water into our RV tank, to use for brushing teeth.

Let me know if you know of any good filters that would allow us to use the RV water for drinking (and avoid lugging around the 5 gallon jugs).

Thanks!

I asked why everyone rvng down there used bottle water and where it came from in a post awhile back.

Water quality......
Get 5 gallons jugs filled or vendors deliver it.

Water treatment for fresh water....rvng in Mexico

Check the posts on this site in the recent past.

We use water that we buy at the supermarket for brushing teeth, coffe and cooking and local water for the potable water tank, when we have food in a restaurant I ask for agua mineral de Penafiel, and I request that it not be opened when it is brought to the table, if opened I send it back, beer is handled the same way un-opened.

A filter may not work in some plases due to very low pressure on the lines, we have taken showers where there was only a small trickle, and to get water in the RV I had to do it with the 2 gallon jug that I carry and use the gravity inlet.

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Drinking water for us always came from purified water bought in 5 gallon jugs, called "garrafons". Buy a couple of 'bombas" (simple inexpensive plastic hand pumps} once you get to a Mexican hardware store. The jugs have necks made in a couple of sizes, so select a bomba to fit snugly over the garrafon you have. If you wish to add purified water directly to your main tank and are faced with pouring into a vertically situated filler, select a 2 litro (approx.) plastic Coke bottle, fit the neck to match the filler hole and then cut an oblong-ish circle in the side of the bottle. Unless yours is a complicated system, this apparatus will direct the water in nicely, and spillage can be kept to only a small amount, or nothing, with practice. As well, water truck workers will sometimes add their water to your tank for you.

In many seasons of camping in Mexico we never had bad water from these containers. Filtering presupposes you will have a means of pressurizing the water to push it through to the tank, in other words, from the water supply at an RV Park, etc. Buying the water available in garrafons means you will have more latitude in where you camp, always with an eye on keeping foreign material from accumulating in your fresh water tank.

We have a Reverse Osmosis system to produce Our own Bottled Water. I also use a series of Filters to fill the Fresh Water Holding Tank!
Been doing this for the last 6 Years.
We also buy a few Bottles for quick drinks from the local Stores from time to time!

The cheap blue cylinder filters are good idea when filing your fresh water tank. Still not safe for drinking but they keep any sediment out.

I never drink water, in a foreign country, except at home in Munich, Germany, what I know. I always buy bottle water, for cooking, I use 5 gal bottle, who you can refill in many refill- station about 20 Pesos in Mexico.
For drink, I buy, drinking bottle water from supermarket.. horrible, I drink my coffee with a taste of chlorine...
I don't trust RV Water filters, most company use cheap filters...

I never was going sick in any country, round the world. In my US Trailer or German RV, the Water is use only for shower and wash the dishes.

In Mexico for three months, unless the tap (faucet) was clearly marked as non-potable, we only used whatever water came out of the taps to fill our tanks and all drinking and cooking water comes out of our on-board tank. As a bit of an extra precaution even though it didn't seem necessary, I added recommended doses of chlorine (as plain liquid bleach) as I filled the tank. A couple of times I delayed filling the water because it tasted terrible, but we have found the same problem in other countries, especially parts of the US and Australia.

We have done the same thing motorhoming in 20 countries and never had any health problems remotely attributable to water quality.

Always hard to justify paying more for water in fancy containers than we pay for irreplaceable liquid fuels.

We run a filter system under our kitchen sink, that feeds to a small faucet that is mounted in the hole that most sinks have. First is a 5 micron, the second, a .5 micron coconut charcoal filter. This provides us with very safe drinking water for ourselves and our pets. That is what we use for cooking and drinking. All else, teeth, dishes, showers, we use what comes in with the hose. Easy, very safe, no nasty tastes, no bleach to mess with, and no 5 gallon jugs anymore. One set of filters, although we always carry a spare set, easily lasts us 4 months in Mexico. We have done this for over 10 years now, and have seen many others go to this easy system.