crandle wrote:
Use bottled water for drinking. Mexicans use it, why wouldn't we? For the fresh water holding tank, we attach a cheap Walmart filter to the hose (replace at least every year) and add a quarter cup or so of bleach every time we fill. You should "just" be able to smell the bleach in the water. We do not drink this water or use it to make coffee or tea but we do brush our teeth with it.
We have been doing the same except for the "cheap Walmart filter" for years. We have a three stage filter, we can use 1,2,or all three using increasing filtration up to a 1 micron ceramic filter. Unfortunately when you add filtration, in many places in Mexico there isn't enough water pressure to push the water through. We have our "spare" water pump available to help overcome this. In one campground there was so much sandy sediment we wrapped the first stage with paper towels then uses a relatively course charcoal filter after that.
Where we are now we don't filter at all, just add a bit of bleach. Bottled water is delivered three times a week.
The dogs too get bottled water.