Just curious

Do your pocketbook and the environment a favor and stop using bottled water when traveling and when at home. Use a Brita or similar filter. You can find suitable filters for use with water pitchers, as a screw on faucet adapter or an inline.

The world has more than enough plastic waste and very little of it is recycled.

Yes, all of the time. Why would someone waste money on bottled water?

I have a three filter set-up to include a carbon filter, so the taste is very good.

Bill

This conversation is moving into territory beyond the scope of this forum, but if you are interested the regulation of bottled water is a sad, sad story. Officially bottled water falls under the oversight of the FDA. There seems to be little in the way of actual regulation, requirements, inspections or enforcement. As in many areas, the FDA has been crippled by political pressures.

After Flint, there is justifiable concerns about municipal water. The situation with bottled water is much worse. I have more trust for water through a Brita or similar device than I do for bottled water.

mattyj wrote:
Anyone out there drink the water out of their fresh water tank??

NOPE.

Bottled water only, either from the store or containers I will up at home and then haul camping with me.

Water from the fresh tank made me sick once, so I stopped drinking from the fresh tank probably 15 years ago.

Reality Check wrote:
Why wouldn't you? Is water in a plastic bottle somehow better than water in a plastic tank?

One baths in the RV Water, washes dishes in the RV water, brushes their teeth with the RV water, cooks with the RV water. What's the difference?

Exactly.

Why wouldn't you? Is water in a plastic bottle somehow better than water in a plastic tank?

One baths in the RV Water, washes dishes in the RV water, brushes their teeth with the RV water, cooks with the RV water. What's the difference?

mbloof wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
Been drinking rv tank water for 50yrs. Never had an issue and never sanitized a tank. Just check the water before filling and use a filter on the hose while filling.

Ditto.

I almost always carry at least 1/2 a tank as IDK if there are trustworthy water sources where I'm going and more often then not I'm boondocking/dry camping without any hookups.

While I will filter the city water via hose while filling the tank, I have no issue with drinking it OR ever having to "sanitize" the water system.

IMHO: some folks just like to make stuff more complicated than they need to be. :)


- Mark0.

Same here. Filled the tank in 2006 when we bought the camper new, then only added water as needed (usually at home from well water) since then. Do nothing special for storage but try to keep it on the full side for a quick power outage water source.

We do have a built-in filtered water tap so the taste is better but that's what we also use at home with the fridge since our water doesn't taste the best anyway.

valhalla360 wrote:
Been drinking rv tank water for 50yrs. Never had an issue and never sanitized a tank. Just check the water before filling and use a filter on the hose while filling.

Ditto.

I almost always carry at least 1/2 a tank as IDK if there are trustworthy water sources where I'm going and more often then not I'm boondocking/dry camping without any hookups.

While I will filter the city water via hose while filling the tank, I have no issue with drinking it OR ever having to "sanitize" the water system.

IMHO: some folks just like to make stuff more complicated than they need to be. :)


- Mark0.

RetiredRealtorRick wrote:


I agree, except for the source of bottled water. "Purified" water might come from a source exactly as you describe, but "spring" water does not, and can not, come from a source other than a natural spring. For those who insist on bottled water, there should be no option other than spring water.

The fact that it came from a spring does not mean it is pure.
Was the spring from deep, underground water or surface water that percolated through the soil recently? What minerals does it contain? Who tested it and how often and for what contaminants?

Even if it starts out pure, there is the issue of the plastic bottle and often extremely long contact between the water and the plastic.
In 2018, a study examined 259 bottled waters and 93% of them contained micro plastic synthetic polymer particles, according to Frontiers in Chemistry.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141690/

toedtoes wrote:
I have always drunk from my fresh water tank.

When I first get an RV, I sanitize the tank using chlorine granules for a swimming pool/hottub. It doesn't need to be rinsed out to get rid of the bad bleach taste (which is added to bleach to stop kids from drinking it, so it is purposely made to taste horrid). Any chlorine residue is minimal and no worse than other chlorinated drinking water.

Then I always fill the tank at home from my municipal water (from which at least one bottled water company buys their water to bottle). It is chlorinated so no need to worry about re-sanitizing the tanks under normal circumstances. If the water starts tasting musty, etc, I would re-sanitize it, but that hasn't happened as yet.

Of course, I also drink from my tap. And yes, I have drunk from my garden hoses too. And swallowed pool water.

Flavor added to bleach to make it undesirable to drink?
First I’ve heard of that…


On another note, it’s hilarious how many “old” folks have become so conditioned to only drinking bottled water!
No wonder so many were so easily brainwashed in recent years.
I think/hope adults were actually a bit tougher in the past. (Not you, you seem pretty tough. people in general)