Another reason NOT to use the "Water Thief"
This was posted at the USFS Windy Hill CG at Roosevelt Lake but I have seen similar postings at a number of USFS CG's through the southwest. If a CG only has a few spigots scattered around, often wit...
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Fiverwheel wrote:
Reading that sign I wouldn't hesitate to fill my water tank with a water thief. What I think they have in mind is staying connected to the spigot.
By connecting to the faucet you would be breaking the law and possibly causing a cross contamination of the water supply.
Here is how it can and does happen. So you hook up and start flowing water but unknown to you so do a few other folks, maybe one or two hooked to the faucet and others just getting a drink. All that flow at other faucets may cause a low pressure or even a negative pressure at your faucet, especially if you are at the top of the run, if a negative pressure situation happens the water in your hose may flow back into the water system. Now think about how many postings here about people using the drinking water hose to flush there black tanks or just the ones you have seen.
The idea of the sign is to prevent cross contamination not to stop volume.
JimR
