Off Grid/Boondocking Water Questions
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We use 5 gal of water a day for showers and dishes and the toilet. We have a 30 gallon tank. We also have five 6 gallon plastic jerry cans. We use a funnel to fill the tank from the jerry cans when the tank gets low. I should add that we shower every night before bed.
The real limiting factor on our boondocking range is our gray water capacity of 25 gallons, which we reach in about 5 days. Some folks dump gray water on the ground, where it is permitted. We don't -- I just can't justify it. We sometimes dump gray water into a bucket and dump it in the toilet. The toilet's capacity is 25 gallons, which we never reach.
So due to the need to dump gray water, we usually have to find a dump once a week.
We also drink around three gallons a day (coffee and water in our water bottles while hiking).
That water has to be of a better quality than the stuff in the tank -- we bring reverse osmosis water from our home system, use the Brita filter to improve the water in the tank, or (as a last resort) buy big 2.5 gal. jugs of good water at the supermarket.
Once in a while, especially in the mountains, we find water spigots with delicious water, which we then put into our plastic tanks. A rare but pleasant event.
By the way, DW has fairly short hair (because she does not like to fuss around with it), and I have almost none. That saves a lot of water.
We boondock around 60 to 90 nights a year. There are other folks on this forum who do it a lot more than we do, I think.
The real limiting factor on our boondocking range is our gray water capacity of 25 gallons, which we reach in about 5 days. Some folks dump gray water on the ground, where it is permitted. We don't -- I just can't justify it. We sometimes dump gray water into a bucket and dump it in the toilet. The toilet's capacity is 25 gallons, which we never reach.
So due to the need to dump gray water, we usually have to find a dump once a week.
We also drink around three gallons a day (coffee and water in our water bottles while hiking).
That water has to be of a better quality than the stuff in the tank -- we bring reverse osmosis water from our home system, use the Brita filter to improve the water in the tank, or (as a last resort) buy big 2.5 gal. jugs of good water at the supermarket.
Once in a while, especially in the mountains, we find water spigots with delicious water, which we then put into our plastic tanks. A rare but pleasant event.
By the way, DW has fairly short hair (because she does not like to fuss around with it), and I have almost none. That saves a lot of water.
We boondock around 60 to 90 nights a year. There are other folks on this forum who do it a lot more than we do, I think.
