After living in our RV for the past 11 years, I fail to understand why people pay extra money to buy water that is tap water, run through a filter and put into a plastic bottle? It is so very easy to just use a filter on the water supply into the RV and you have that same product! '
The purpose of the fresh water tank to for supplying potable water. We always use a charcoal filter on all water put into our system, but not take advantage of it makes no real logic. If you ever drink tap water anywhere, even in a restaurant than you are drinking the same thing. The carbon filter prevents any sediment from entering the system and it removes excess chlorine and minerals. In our 11 years, we have never had any health issues from this approach, but we do purchase a quality filter.
We also sanitize that water system annually, which should be done with any RV. You can find simple instructions on how to do this by visiting this web-page.
Good travelin! ........Kirk
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When we are camping we used bottled water. I don't like to drink warm or hot water so we fill the bottles from the faucet and put them in the refrig to cool down. 2 weeks ago, in Atlanta, we took our showers from the cold water faucet because it was that warm. That just ain't good drinking temps.
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We drink the water in the fresh water tank,but just be be safe I usually have some alcohol (Jack Daniels)afterwards to kill of any bad germs.That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
"If momma not happy ....Who cares.I have my TH AND my toys .
I have never been able to drink from the tank, or even when hooked up to campground water. I cannot stand the taste. Years ago I bought several of the 5 gallon water totes that you can find at sporting goods store. I fill those with water from home and drink it. I have a 1 gallon spigot container I keep on the counter to fill cups with, and keep the 5g containers in the truck bed.
If we run out of "home" water, I will refill the 5g containers along the road at one of those "pay-per-gallon" stations.
I do use the fresh tank for cooking, and of course bathing. I am not afraid of germs being in the system, I just simply cannot stand the taste.
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resmas wrote: I have never been able to drink from the tank, or even when hooked up to campground water. I cannot stand the taste.
Yeah, the treated water in communities with "water systems" can be awful. The smell and the taste can be repulsive.
A Brita water filter takes care of that though, so I have a Brita in the fifth wheel for when the smell of the water is bad due to the added chemicals in it.
sue t.
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We drink from the tank. Someone said it might be an age thing, but we are a young family in our early 30's, so I do not think it is an age thing.
We also drink tap water south of the border. We have been all over Mexico, Central and South America. We have never been sick. We usually go with a large group of friends who think we are crazy, but some of them always get sick and they don't drink the water. Must be all the whiskey and takillya that sanitizes our systems.
isn't it amazing how the American public continues to be brainwashed about bottled water vs. tap water.
as i've always said, Grandma and Grandpa, if they were alive, would never believe that so many people actually PAY for bottled water, when there's perfectly good water out of the faucet.
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