drinking water
What do most of you do for drinking water in your RV's? We don't like the idea of drinking the water that has been sitting around in our fresh water tank, so we've kept containers of drinking water in...
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Others have said it. There is the I drink from it all the time, and the never drink from their tanks. Depending on my trip/use I bring 1-2 5 gallon water cooler jugs of water for drinking and the dogs. There is usually a case of bottled water for quick convience of grab and go, and that case lasts several trips.
I do this for one reason only, my dogs. When I first started RVing, I drank the local water or from my tank all the time. I figured as long as I ran the water after hooking up and kept my tank/lines clean I would be fine. But then it seemed like every trip my two dogs where getting sick, I replaced filters, my hoses, sanitized everything. And the next trip, same thing for the first 3 of 5 days. Moved to our next location, started all over again. Since moving to the water cooler jugs, I no longer have that issue with the dogs and I have noticed less issues myself in the change in water. Otherwise, I use the local water or my tank for everything else.
I am sure if I where full timing and spending long runs in each location, it would be less of an issue. But right now its random weekends and a 2 week trip every winter and that seems to make a difference.
I do this for one reason only, my dogs. When I first started RVing, I drank the local water or from my tank all the time. I figured as long as I ran the water after hooking up and kept my tank/lines clean I would be fine. But then it seemed like every trip my two dogs where getting sick, I replaced filters, my hoses, sanitized everything. And the next trip, same thing for the first 3 of 5 days. Moved to our next location, started all over again. Since moving to the water cooler jugs, I no longer have that issue with the dogs and I have noticed less issues myself in the change in water. Otherwise, I use the local water or my tank for everything else.
I am sure if I where full timing and spending long runs in each location, it would be less of an issue. But right now its random weekends and a 2 week trip every winter and that seems to make a difference.
