Soon, my current TT will be up on blocks at a seasonal site. There is no water system at the park. Because of this, I plan to fill my fresh water tank with lake water.How can I do this to ensure safe drinking water.

read up on water purification. be certain you know what you're doing or be sure you have cell service to call for an ambulance.

When we're boondocking by our favorite stream fed pond in the Adirondacks, we use a "LifeStraw Mission" to filter the pond water for our drinking water. All the other pond water we use for showers, etc., runs through a dual whole house sediment and carbon block filter before entering the motorhome water system.

OP here. The water is safe to drink. I just want to make sure it doesn't have anything in it that could cause issues, such as sand, debris and of course the bacteria and viruses.

swimmer_spe wrote:OP here. The water is safe to drink. I just want to make sure it doesn't have anything in it that could cause issues, such as sand, debris and of course the bacteria and viruses.What does that mean?Who told you that the water is safe. Do you trust that source with your life?I'd go with a coarse filter, fine filter, RO membrane and then UV. Might want a high pressure booster pump for the RO if the water is high in TDS.

I'd buy bottled water to drink, make coffee and maybe cook with. We don't usually buy our water, but in this case that's what I would do.

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shastagary
Explorer
Jun 04, 2019

Help me understand. If the water is safe to drink today, then why wouldn't it be safe to drink tomorrow, or next week

you better start reading about why. without treatment not just filtering bad things will grow in your tank and get worse with each refill cdc centers for disease control and prevention-drinking contaminated water can increase the risk of developing certain infectious diseases caused by germs such as Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Shigella, and norovirus, among others.
Lwiddis
Explorer II
Jun 04, 2019
While the ocean is dead last, next to last as a water source is a lake.
pauldub
Explorer
Jun 04, 2019
If you're truly convinced that the water is safe unless it's left sitting in your tank, just drain the tank when you leave and refill it when you next arrive. I drank water out of streams when I was much younger, but I wouldn't consider it now. Just not a risk that I want to take anymore. Most of my drinking water is purified by the Coca Cola company. They even add a nice flavor at no extra charge.
GordonThree
Explorer
Jun 04, 2019
2oldman wrote:
I want to hear stories of people who smoked and lived to 90.

Probably an anomaly but my grandmother made it to 97, smoking since she was 13. Outlived several of her children.
fj12ryder
Explorer III
Jun 04, 2019
2oldman wrote:
I want to hear stories of people who smoked and lived to 90.
There actually are quite a few regardless of what the surgeon general would have you believe. One of the biggies was Eubie Blake, smoked unfiltered Pall Malls from childhood into his late 90's. And there are people who develop lung cancer and other deceases associated with smoking, and have never been around a smoker ever. There are no hard and fast rules, just higher and lower odds.

You could quit smoking, take up chewing toothpicks to ease the addiction, and die of Dutch Elm disease.

But, personally, I think the OP's idea is risky without considerable filtering and treating. It's one of the things that separates first world countries from the rest: reliably safe drinking water.
time2roll
Nomad
Jun 04, 2019
swimmer_spe wrote:
If that is what is needed, I will just bring tap water from home.
This is best and no reason not to.
2oldman
Explorer II
Jun 04, 2019
fj12ryder wrote:
BillyBob Jim wrote:
gbopp wrote:
How did we all survive childhood? Everyone drank from creeks and garden hoses.

Our parents and their siblings used to tell stories of how when they swam in the river here when they were kids, they had to push the turds out of the way back in the 1930's/40s. Turd Herding or Log Wrangling I guess you could call it.
Sure they did, and they walked 2 miles to school through hip deep snow, uphill both ways.
lol,x2
BillyBob_Jim
Explorer
Jun 04, 2019
fj12ryder wrote:
BillyBob Jim wrote:
gbopp wrote:
How did we all survive childhood? Everyone drank from creeks and garden hoses.

Our parents and their siblings used to tell stories of how when they swam in the river here when they were kids, they had to push the turds out of the way back in the 1930's/40s. Turd Herding or Log Wrangling I guess you could call it.
Sure they did, and they walked 2 miles to school through hip deep snow, uphill both ways.

With no shoes!
fj12ryder
Explorer III
Jun 04, 2019
BillyBob Jim wrote:
gbopp wrote:
How did we all survive childhood? Everyone drank from creeks and garden hoses.

Our parents and their siblings used to tell stories of how when they swam in the river here when they were kids, they had to push the turds out of the way back in the 1930's/40s. Turd Herding or Log Wrangling I guess you could call it.
Sure they did, and they walked 2 miles to school through hip deep snow, uphill both ways.
BillyBob_Jim
Explorer
Jun 04, 2019
2oldman wrote:
I want to hear stories of people who smoked and lived to 90.

Here ya go.

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