Colour of water hose

aftermath wrote:
My word! It must be difficult to live in a world where you think everything is going to kill you.

Whoosh.

Drinking from a hose not made from food grade material may not kill you. But, it does put chemicals into you which increase the risks, in addition to adding bad tastes.

You can get a 50' drinking water safe hose on Amazon for under $25, shipped. When you only save a couple of bucks with a non-potable water one, what reasonable argument is there against it? Getting better tasting water is worth it, regardless of what you think the chemicals are doing to you.

My word! It must be difficult to live in a world where you think everything is going to kill you. People refuse to use their propane refrigerators because your RV will blow up. Now, you can't drink the water from a hose, you can't drink water at all unless it is bottled.

I do understand that there are places where the local water does not taste as good as you are used to and then bottled water would make sense. Other than that, I say use your RV as it was designed. Hook up to the city water and take advantage of the service. I prefer not to use my pump because of the noise. I also think my chances of contaminated water would be greater if it came out of the onboard tank.

It is a fact that a lot of bottled water comes out of a city tap somewhere. They might say "spring water" but that could mean that the city source has some spring water associated with it. I still can't imagine living with such fear. What do you do when you camp? Do you go outside? There are fungal spores blowing in the wind, there are parasites in the dirt, there are chemicals in the air. And don't forget the sun, boy that can cause skin cancer. Do you sit by a fire? So you roast marshmallows? Do you cook on a grill? Do you use charcoal? All of these are HUGE risks if you concentrate real hard.

Bumpyroad wrote:

Jacksons wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

johnhicks wrote:
And bottled water comes from municipal water supplies......

But then its treated furtherby running it through a sack of Kingsford, and reversed Psychosis.

and you actually witnessed this??

I think he was referring to charcoal filtration and reverse osmosis. :)
common water treatment procedures.
bumpy

Osmosis, Psychosis, possibly Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Bumpyroad wrote:
I thought that a lot of streams are contaminated with some "bug" that can cause serious problems.
bumpy

Well, let's see. According to my copy of Tom Sheppard's VEHICLE DEPENDENT EXPEDITION GUIDE:

(And BTW, this book is about traveling ANYWHERE in the world - Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, & North America. I don't know which of these waterborne critters are or aren't in North American Water.)

Big Bugs - Parasites, Protozoa - Giardia, Cryptosporidia, Schistosoma, Amoebic Dysentery, worms. Range in size between 4 and 12 microns. Most are highly resistant to Chlorine and Iodine, but because of their size, they are removed by most good water filters of 5 microns or less.

Small Bugs - Bacteria - E. Coli, Bacillary Dysentery, Cholera, Typhoid, Leptospirosis. Range in size from 0.5 to 3 microns. Killed by chemicals like Iodine and Chlorine, Only the finest water filters of 1 micron or less will remove them.

Very Small Bugs - Viruses - Polio, Hepatitis, Rotavirus. Killed by chemicals, but are too small to be removed by water filters.

As I said, I'm sure many of these are only found in third world countries. But I'm sure some of them, at least, are found in American and Canadian water. E. Coli is, for sure.

In search of the elusive middle ground:

I do detect a taste when I drink unflushed water from my garden hose.

And when camping, THE WATER DOES SIT IN THE HOSE INSTEAD BEING LIBERALLY FLUSHED OUT.

So, I do hook up with the official, hose-police-approved "white" hose- seems to taste better.

AND

I try to flush out my garden hose before drinking from it (need to do it to get cool water anyway- you know).

And, I'm sure my green hose contains materials, "known by the state of California to cause cancer".

However, my biggest worry is that the vast majority of water supplies contain extremely high levels of dihydrogen monoxide.

Jacksons wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

johnhicks wrote:
And bottled water comes from municipal water supplies......

But then its treated furtherby running it through a sack of Kingsford, and reversed Psychosis.

and you actually witnessed this??

I think he was referring to charcoal filtration and reverse osmosis. :)
common water treatment procedures.
bumpy

Jacksons wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

johnhicks wrote:
And bottled water comes from municipal water supplies......

But then its treated furtherby running it through a sack of Kingsford, and reversed Psychosis.

and you actually witnessed this??

Yes....when we toured the Funkmountain Pure Crystal Spring Water production plant in Clearwater Florida. Right before bottling they also do floccuflatulation.

http://www.theledger.com/news/20080322/your-bottled-water-may-not-come-from-a-spring

Ralph Cramden wrote:

johnhicks wrote:
And bottled water comes from municipal water supplies......

But then its treated furtherby running it through a sack of Kingsford, and reversed Psychosis.

and you actually witnessed this??

I thought that a lot of streams are contaminated with some "bug" that can cause serious problems.
bumpy