ge2
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Any tips or tricks for carrying extra water along on a trip while boondocking? What do you folks use to carry extra (non-drinking water)?
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Dshultz50
Oregon
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We have 3 of those 5 gallon water jugs you can get at sports stores. We use water out of these for cooking and dishes. If we go anywhere near a potable water source, we fill them up -- even if they're only half full.
DH has concocted a "wash station". He took a pump sprayer/fertilizer container that you normally use to spray outside -- holds 2 gallons -- and painted it black (holds heat and absorbes sun rays) and attaches a sink sprayer to it. The sprayer is the kind you see at the kitchen sink. We keep that for washing hands. Works wonders -- kids use less water. We set this up near a tree stump - away from the cooking and sitting area.
When washing dishes -- we use only about 2-3" of water in a plastic tub to wash. I wipe all excess soap suds off the dishes and then rinse in a second tub. By wiping off the suds...the rinse water lasts longer.
Doing the above...the 2 of us have been able to camp over a week without being out of water.
Oh -- we only shower ever few days --  we do "spit baths"
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JCHKeys
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If you are looking to carry large amounts of water, Tractor Supply Company carries large plastic tanks that can be mounted in a pickup bed that can carry up to 100 gallons extra.
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amaze
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I use this from Camping World.
Portable Water
I do not put it on top of my truck. Instead I bought a 12v pump that pumps it into my water tank. Works well and sure beats standing with a 5 gallon jug trying to fill up the tank.
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Vapor_Trails
Yucaipa, CA
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Our camping is almost always out in the boonies:
This applies to any RV. We bring a coulpe of those 5 gallon water cooler jugs. We use bottled water for drinking and garden hose water to fill the fresh tank (and the jugs). When the fresh tank gets low, I cut an empty water bottle in half, use the top portion for a funnel and empty a 5 gallon jug into the fresh tank.
Our TT fresh tank is 25 gallons; barely larger than many pup tanks. We have learned how to conserve water very well over the years. I think conserving water is as important (for boondocking, anyway) as it is to bring extra.
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WaltinColo
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We bring bottled water to drink and only use the pup water for dishes.
Can usually go 4-5 days without running out....
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nowgrn4
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We too use 4 five gal. collapsible water bags to refill the TT tank.We refill them when we are out and about and use the TT's pump and winterizing hose to do the refill.Also here is a tip for conserving water and grey/tank capacity when doing dishes.Start with just a little soapy water in a plastic wash basin.Do the silverware first and rinse them right into the wash basin.Do dishes next,and as the water level rises in the basin from rinsing.Do the glasses then pots and pans last.When finished dump basin outside if possible.
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Yooperwannabe
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You can also reuse the rinse water for other things such as hand washing, rinsing off a childs dirty feet before entering the pup, or doucing out a campfire.
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mobeewan
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I have three - 15 gallon white ploy barrels. They have two - 3/4 inch female pipe threaded holes in the top. I screwed 3/4 male pipe thread x 3/4 male garden hose brass fittings into them and capped them with female garden hose caps. I stand them upright in the front of my truck bed full of water for transport. I also have the blue 7 gallon Reliance jugs sold at Walmart. The caps on the Reliance lugs have female pipe threads for the supplied spigots. I connect a white garden hose to the barrels or jugs and then connect the hose to a spare Shur-flo pump and then run another hose from the pump to my wash station for the pop up or my fresh water fill opening on my TT. I run the pump off of a spare deep cycle battery or can run it off the trailer plug on the truck or off the trailer 12 volt system.
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R N R
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I prefer the sturdier 7 gal aquatainers. They don't collapse and stand up by themselves. We've got 3 of these.
To transfer the water to my tank, I use a Kayak bilge pump that I added some tubing for the intake and output. About 40 pumps and 7 gallons is in my fresh water tank. It sucks out almost all of the water, leaving about a cup or less.
works for me.
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