MaxThrust
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Mootpoint wrote:White hoses were originally design with more reinforcing in them so they wouldn't blow out from being constantly under pressure when hooked up. Back in the day the only difference in the hoses was just that, more reinforcing. The rubber/vinyl or whatever was the same for both garden and potable. They made them white for eye appeal. Mine is orange. Green, black and apparently blue are also available. For me it is garden hose and tap water. Bottled water is just a bacterial culture according to the chemists. Good marketing job by the bottled water companies. As for the amount of lead in a hose.....you could never drink enough water in your life time for it to show up in your body.
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D & M
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Mootpoint wrote:White hoses were originally design with more reinforcing in them so they wouldn't blow out from being constantly under pressure when hooked up. Back in the day the only difference in the hoses was just that, more reinforcing. The rubber/vinyl or whatever was the same for both garden and potable. They made them white for eye appeal. Mine is orange. Green, black and apparently blue are also available. For me it is garden hose and tap water. Bottled water is just a bacterial culture according to the chemists. Good marketing job by the bottled water companies. As for the amount of lead in a hose.....you could never drink enough water in your life time for it to show up in your body.
X2. What really makes me laugh is the people that would "never" use a garden hose for fear of contamination, think nothing about taking a "potable water hose" that has been lying for a week or two, wet on the inside, in a warm, dark compartment and hooking it up and drinking from it. I'm willing to bet the hose is no longer white on the inside. LOL
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tatest
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I use the garden hose, and I think about it. With a flow of 4 GPM it leaches a lot less into the water than the white hose dose sitting in the sun with standing water for 8-12 hours at a time.
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daverich
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I used the garden hose when we still had a sticks and bricks. Now that we are full-timers we use the white because it is already hooked up.
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Gjac
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D&M is right. My hose sprung a leak so I cut it at the pin hole and made a shorter hose when camping with hookups. That hose had a dark brown build up on the inside and yes it was only used for fresh water.
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NorthernLimits
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Even if a garden hose contained lead, do people actually think that fast moving water in a garden hose will pick up enough lead to be harmful?
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Roy&Lynne
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We use the water hose and we use our fresh water tank. We don't do bottled water as believe it's the biggest ripoff in the world. Some company fills plastic bottles with tap water, gives it a pretty label and folks buy it by the case thinking they are getting something special. LOL, they are, water, which is possibly not as good for you as tap as those plastic bottles get hot and leach hydrothingies into the water.
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Searching_Ut
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I use my white hose when I fill from home, primarily because we have a secondary water system for irrigation use. It's untreated water not fit for drinking and that is what I have my green hose hooked up to. If not for that, I see no reason not to just use the garden hose.
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Bigdog
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I use a garden hose with a filter on the MH end at the house and a white hose on the road. Why not use the green hose on the road?? Well,I did for several trips one year and got tired of listening to folks stopping by and telling me how bad it was for me.
Ya ever want some fun,just do that..
I do carry a green hose to use on my grey and black tank flushers and sometimes someone will see it being used and let me know that it's not a good idea to use them.
I also use quick couplers for all my hoses and on the filter and it makes it a lot easier to hook-up and unhook.The fittings automatically stop the flow when you pull them off.I also have back flow fittings on the connectors for the tank flushers and that way there is no water coming back when I unhook them.
I love the water we have here as it is always winning 1st,2nd or 3rd in the national water contests. Didn't know about that?? Ask your local water dept about it.
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theoakman
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I read somewhere that the white RV hoses were made of food grade material. Don't know if that's still the case. But we fill the tank only with the white hoses. We carry a couple of two gallon plastic jugs we refill at WM's water machine when traveling and we use this for coffee, cooking, drinking, etc. This is our boondocking or dry camping method.
A few years ago we talked with a maintenance man at a state park. He said they had to check their water purity every day so no worries there. We just hook up to the campground system....but still filter coffee, cooking, and drinking water with a Brita counter top filter.
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