Spare Water Storage

Gdetrailer wrote:

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Honestly? Pesticide tanks?

Even if you are not planning to drink the water from your RV fresh water tank do not use ANY vessel, tank, jug, barrel which is NOT rated as "potable", "food grade", "food safe" or safe for human consumption..

Even if those means are brand new, many of these tanks are not made from plastics which will be safe for human consumption. Those plastics often contain chemicals which can leach out into the water over time..

So to recap.. You WANT to buy and USE containers which are specifically labeled as "potable" or safe for human consumption.

Pesticide tanks do not meet this criteria.

Even if you don't plan to drink from your trailer water system, the NEXT OWNER just might and the chemicals that leach out could potentially harm the next owner and or family..

"food grade" and "potable" are only used when someone is willing to accept liability. I worked at a bucket manufacturer and all the buckets were made of the same material not all were "food grade" The single most important thing it to check the material they are made of most will be HDPE #2 plastic. If the tank is made of HDPE then you want to give them a good cleaning the die lube will not be food grade so you want to wash that off. that's my $0.02.

Years ago we used the blue plastic 5gal jerry cans. Depending on how much extra water you want to carry, the collapsible tanks look like a good idea. What ever type you decide on, I'd make it electric pumpable.

johndeerefarmer wrote:
What do you store you spare water in? Plastic jugs? Plastic tank, barrel etc?
If you use a tank or barrel how do you get it out of there? Does it have an electric pump?

I see some using the 50 gallon tanks that you would spray pesticides out of. You can buy them at Tractor Supply but wondered how to get the water out unless you bought the one with a pump.

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Honestly? Pesticide tanks?

Even if you are not planning to drink the water from your RV fresh water tank do not use ANY vessel, tank, jug, barrel which is NOT rated as "potable", "food grade", "food safe" or safe for human consumption..

Even if those means are brand new, many of these tanks are not made from plastics which will be safe for human consumption. Those plastics often contain chemicals which can leach out into the water over time..

So to recap.. You WANT to buy and USE containers which are specifically labeled as "potable" or safe for human consumption.

Pesticide tanks do not meet this criteria.

Even if you don't plan to drink from your trailer water system, the NEXT OWNER just might and the chemicals that leach out could potentially harm the next owner and or family..

I always have two filled 5-gallon water jerry-cans on the front deck of my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer. I also carry two 7.5 gallon AQUA-Tainer totes for capturing grey water with.. Our cassette pottie has its own 6-gallon tote with wheels for black water..

We are also fresh ground bean coffee lovers so to get the same taste everywhere we go we have to bring our brand of bottled water for the coffee... Always a couple of 1-gallon jugs of that on-board all the time.

We use the same bottled water for drinking and cooking with. The fresh water tank is just for washing dishes and showers and squirting squirrels.

This is what we all got used to doing over the years. no real reasons I reckon...

Cycling all of the different water totes is a daily chore for me when camping off the power grid places.

I also carry a 5-gallon jerry-can of gasoline

Roy Ken

I have two portable jugs that I use. One is a 5 gallon round looking thing that has a nice spigot on the end. When boondocking we usually put this on a table outside and draw from it for coffee and drinking water. I also bring along a 6 gallon plastic jerry can looking tote that I lift up and empty into the trailer water tank.

You could put the barrel you describe in the bed of your truck and let gravity do the work. You could build a small platform to put under the water can if you needed more lift.

You could also get a 12 volt water pump to do the transfer if you had to. I have a friend that has installed two large tanks in the bed of his truck, one for fresh water and one for gray water. He has a pump that can pump the gray water into the aux tank and he lets gravity pull the fresh water to his trailer. A pretty neat system but it does add a lot of weight to his truck.

I would be concerned about one made for agricultural use. It is probably made from recycled plastic and it not food grade.

I use one of these. Can get them at Camping World.

http://www.water-storage-tank.com/collapsibletank.html