Fresh water tank
How long does water stay "fresh" in a fresh water tank? Like many of my questions I know that there is no black and white, for an answer - just looking for opinions. With that, how often does every...
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RobWNY wrote:
We never drink the water from the fresh water tank either. It's strictly used for washing dishes, showers and flushing the toilet. We bring bottled water for drinking and coffee.
I always like these answers. When you rinse the soap off of the dishes (which should have "cleaned" them up to that point) you are then contaminating them with water from your holding tank again. And when you put that fork in your mouth that was rinsed with water from the holding tank - OMG can you imagine the germs on it???? And then don't let me even think about the coffee cup that was rinsed in water from the holding tank.
We leave our water in the holding tank for up to 5 months and have never had problems with smell, taste or germs. We do run our water into the holding tank through a three filter set up to get rid smell, taste and sediment from the local water supplies we use.
We're still alive, well and happy.
Bill
