Clean water

We use the proper white water hose but we don't drink "where ever we happen to be/local" water or tank water. Even with 2 filters...we've gotten sick or just sick of the taste of water in certain areas. We always buy drinking water and use the faucet & tank water for showers and toilet.

beemerphile1 wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:

...hundreds of open sewer connections, sewer dumping spills, the well on the same property and, well, do the math of the % of incidence of contaminated water! :B

Yep, that is why we read on these forums constantly about all the people getting sick at campgrounds. Why, it looks like an epidemic.

What a minute, actually, I have never read about anyone getting sick from the water.

That's cause they blame it on the picnic food or drinking too much beer! :B

When I drink water from the campground spigot, I always add a jigger or two of scotch to purify it. Been doing it for over 40 years, so it must work!

rockhillmanor wrote:

...hundreds of open sewer connections, sewer dumping spills, the well on the same property and, well, do the math of the % of incidence of contaminated water! :B

Yep, that is why we read on these forums constantly about all the people getting sick at campgrounds. Why, it looks like an epidemic.

What a minute, actually, I have never read about anyone getting sick from the water.

I do something similar to the OP. First I purchase the gallon jugs of water at my local HyVee grocery store. Because I'm just a weekend camper then I just use the same jugs and bottles for water all summer long. I just refill them from my home water supply.

We will taste the water after hooking up at the campground and if the water tastes good then we drink it. If it does taste funky then we turn the water off at the spigot and fill a container or two from the fresh water tank for drinking water and coffee. Then turn the spigot back on for flushing and washing.

Water with dangerous bacteria levels in it does not taste any different than safe water.

I full time so I am at different CQ's more than the average RV'er. AND my house had well water. So I am familiar with the pro's and con's of well water!

CG's are NOT required to test their well water on a certain schedule as many campers seem to think. In general property with a well only gets tested when the property is sold. Unless a home owner chooses to have it tested for their own purpose. I tested my well water often and on several occasions had to disinfect it. And with housing your well has to be X amount of feet away from the septic field.

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That said, CG property's have an average of 100 plus or minus campsites all with 'open' sewer hook ups running in conjunction with and very close proximity to water lines. The well is situated on the same property.

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THAT scenario alone is why I do NOT ever drink water from CG hookups or when used to be filled into my holding tank.

Holding tanks are just large petrie dishes. A minute amount of a bacteria, that your stomach normally could handle in the water when you put it in, will bloom in a holding tank to not safe levels.

Add hundreds of open sewer connections, sewer dumping spills, the well on the same property and.....well...do the math of the % of incidence of contaminated water! :B

With a potable water hose and a properly sanitized RV, the water coming out tastes exactly the same as the water going in. If it doesn't you are doing something wrong.

regarding the topic of bottled water when camping, all i got to say is, :S:S

1.We drink tap water at home, so why not on the road?
2.We use a regular box store carbon filter on the white hose.(at the trailer end)
3.I leave home with the water tank full.
4.When I am setting up, I sample the park's water. If I like it I use it; if not I use my own.
5.If I like the park water I make sure my tank is full when I leave.
Goto 4


Stu

We use the white hose, as short as possible. the more expensive hydro life filter from CW and then run it though a Pur pitcher for drinking, a bit of overkill but we are spoiled with good water at home. Interestingly, our previous hybrid trailer had the filter built in, our class C does not.