Water filters
I am thinking about using an inline water filter for our next season of camping. We currently drink bottled water. The question I have is how do you know when the filter has completed the filtering pr...
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Bonefish wrote:
It depends upon the type of camping you are doing.
RO systems waist around 4 gallons of bypass water for every gallon of water you get.
The SteriPen only takes out pathogens but not any chemicals or soluble compounds that may be in the water (lead, PCB, benzenes, etc.).
You need combination type filers that take out solids, pathogens and carbon filters to take out water born chemicals.
I'd strongly recommend AGAINST an RO system in an RV. Bulky, wasteful, ect. I've owned a couple in the house and while they work OK, I've gone back to the simple 2-stage system you see in the home centers.
BTW, in the trailer, we use the Pur faucet mounted filter like the member above posted and it works fine. A light goes on when the filter needs to be changed. Only downside is it's a bit slow when working off the water pump but we can live with it. Simple solution IMO. If you want something different, just go with the basic canister style filter system, either single or dual stage.
