Drinking Campground Water...
My wife and are are arguing about making coffee with campground water. I've always used a water filter on our White Hose, but my wife has never tasted campground water, she buys gallons of water. ...
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If you travel around much each season, you will have no idea on water quality in a CG. Even highly regulated water from a municipal system can be contaminated.
The photo below is what we found on our city water inlet after an early season weekend outing. Yuck! It's a "biomass" caused by the CG's failure to flush their lines after being unused over the winter months. Chlorine in water dissipates over time and can allow organisms to grow in piping sometimes. Most contaminants are far too small to see to the naked eye or are dissolved in the water though.
I installed a 4-stage filter setup under the kitchen sink which is 63 down to 0.2 microns. The last "ultrafiltration" UF filter is for drinking water use only and the water is as good as or better than store-bought bottled water. I always blow our lines out for winterizing and remove the filters and let them dry out in the house.
I don't trust the actual quality of bottled water anyway.
The photo below is what we found on our city water inlet after an early season weekend outing. Yuck! It's a "biomass" caused by the CG's failure to flush their lines after being unused over the winter months. Chlorine in water dissipates over time and can allow organisms to grow in piping sometimes. Most contaminants are far too small to see to the naked eye or are dissolved in the water though.
I installed a 4-stage filter setup under the kitchen sink which is 63 down to 0.2 microns. The last "ultrafiltration" UF filter is for drinking water use only and the water is as good as or better than store-bought bottled water. I always blow our lines out for winterizing and remove the filters and let them dry out in the house.
I don't trust the actual quality of bottled water anyway.
