Anybody use a Berkey water filter?
These are highly regarded and it would seem a great way to extend boondocking time. Can treat stream or lake water in fairly large quantities to drinking-water quality. Only issue is they are fairly l...
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Oops, I left out the most inportant step, between #2 and #3: My portable water filter setup.
If you've gone to rvwaterfilterstore, you've seen the filter cannisters. I have two of these bolted together at the heads with a short piece of 1x3 maple, and a carry handle attached to that. Normally this unit is in my TT hooked to my outside water inlet, which then has a short length of white hose. Normaly when I fill water at my inlet, it goes through these filters and then into the gravity-fed inlet I've got near my sink. This means that every drop of water coming into the RV goes through this double filter.
This unit is portable so that I can take it in the jeep with me to the water faucet (or water source), where it gets inserted before the jerry cans, and after the pump, if I'm using one. This is how every drop of water gets filtered, even if I truck it in.
About water sources:
I sure wouldn't use any water from a standing lake that has a trail near it, nor ANY water source that has a road to it, no matter how many times I'd filtered it. Humans have already schatt there, and now you want to drink it? No thanks!
What's left? Water out of a faucet, even if I have to drive an hour to get it.
If you've gone to rvwaterfilterstore, you've seen the filter cannisters. I have two of these bolted together at the heads with a short piece of 1x3 maple, and a carry handle attached to that. Normally this unit is in my TT hooked to my outside water inlet, which then has a short length of white hose. Normaly when I fill water at my inlet, it goes through these filters and then into the gravity-fed inlet I've got near my sink. This means that every drop of water coming into the RV goes through this double filter.
This unit is portable so that I can take it in the jeep with me to the water faucet (or water source), where it gets inserted before the jerry cans, and after the pump, if I'm using one. This is how every drop of water gets filtered, even if I truck it in.
About water sources:
I sure wouldn't use any water from a standing lake that has a trail near it, nor ANY water source that has a road to it, no matter how many times I'd filtered it. Humans have already schatt there, and now you want to drink it? No thanks!
What's left? Water out of a faucet, even if I have to drive an hour to get it.
