How many people have never drank water from the tank?

Go Dogs wrote:
Illnesses from water

Yes, people and animals, get ill and die from contaminated water.

And that includes bottled water as the source:

Bottled Water Outbreaks

Illnesses from water

Yes, people and animals, get ill and die from contaminated water.

We don't even drink from the tap much less from the tank.

The water in my tank sits too long and I don't feel like sanitizing it. The filler vent is somewhat exposed also (had dirt in it at one point). I fill up 1 gallon water containers with water from home and take that along with bottled water to drink.

Like stated previously, we've full-timed for 16+ years and have always used our fresh water tank for our drinking water along with everything else.

We travel constantly - moving around the country. Our first choice of a RV site is always a public park - national, state, national forest, COE, county, city. We fill our tank at those places. We have never sanitized our tank.

However, we do use two filters. People say that they don't trust campground water. Don't they realize that many people drink that campground water, including the employees? You have never seen headlines of hundreds of people getting sick from campground water.

We have volunteered in public parks and do know that the water quality is checked regularly. Why would they take a risk of people getting sick? They don't.

Now taste of water can be a concern and a proper water filter will take care of that taste. But the water itself is not bad because of taste or color. Our last house 16 yr. ago had horrible iron water. It was orange and tasted awful. However, we got an iron filter to take care of the color and taste.

People tend to fall for the marketing gimmicks of companies...bottled water and now with all kinds of additives for taste and energy. They're just putting chemicals in the water and people drink it. Think about it.

Some National Parks are not even selling bottled water anymore because of the environment issues.

Yes, some remote campgrounds might have a sign recommending that you boil water first. The probable cause of this is because of outside contammination from animals, shallow wells or environmentals. However, this shows you that campgrounds are monitoring the water.

Here's a good RV water filter store that has lots of good information:

RV Water Filter Store

The dog water comes from the tank. We take bottled water camping for our consumable water.

dahkota wrote:
I'm not sure where this fear of water came from but it is making some companies rich.

On the one hand, I think there is a definate problem with water-tank and water-system phobia.

On the other hand, there's a bunch of not-so-great-tasting water systems (make no mistake, perfectly SAFE supplies), but the bottled water is generally good-tasting stuff.

I can also show you some good water that will precipitate an amazing amount of iron and gunk up tanks and tubs and toilets with a nasty red-brown color...(again safe, but perhaps undesirable).

I keep our tank water (as well as fresh water hoses and tote) well sanitized because our toddler likes to drink the water coming out of the shower wand. I also figure, even if you don't drink a big glass of it, you are inhaling it while showering and it is getting on the dishes you are washing. I drink a bit from time to time but prefer bottled water for drinking because I can keep it cold in the fridge, and a case of Arrowhead is only 4 bucks at Costco.

We have traveled through all 3 North American countries extensively by RV and always use the water from the tank. Keep it sanitized, filter it with a heavy metal, particulate filter and UV filter and its probably better than the junk they find in bottled water. A lot easier on the environment as well as a lot of water bottles end up not being recycled. Take a walk on any beach in any country and you'll see what i mean.

I sometimes wonder how humans survived for millennia without the benefit of filtered bottled water and hand sanitizer.
One of my dogs used to drink water out of the toilet and he lived to a ripe old age.