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tonyandkaren
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Our 44 gallons of fresh water lasts for 5 or 6 days. This is for two people taking daily showers,using the toilet,cooking,washing dishes and doing normal cleaning. We use a lot of the same conservation tips as Nina. One of the best ways to save water is to use a low suds or easy to rinse body wash like Dr Bronners castille soap.
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tonyandkaren wrote:Our 44 gallons of fresh water lasts for 5 or 6 days. This is for two people taking daily showers,using the toilet,cooking,washing dishes and doing normal cleaning. We use a lot of the same conservation tips as Nina. One of the best ways to save water is to use a low suds or easy to rinse body wash like Dr Bronners castille soap.
Pretty much the same for us. If we don't have hookups, we conserve a little more, and get 5-6 days, if water is available, we "splurg" and get 4 days with 45 gallons. that includes daily showers, cooking, dishwashing with real plates etc. And I alway have a water softener (waterstick) to get soft water, really helps keep down on water use for cleaning and showering.
Best we did was 4 days for 4 adults and a 4 year old and newborn.
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With 100gal capacity we get by for a week without being too very conservative with demand. Onboard our boat we figured 12gal per person per day but flushing water came from the ocean.
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mowermech wrote:It is amazing how little water a person really NEEDS to drink. Most people tend to drink much more than is really necessary. I often see people sucking on water bottles all day, every day. That much water is really not required, I have found.
If you ever get kidney stone you will understand why you have to drink lots of water since i have had lots of kidney stones over the past several years i have to drink at the least one to two gallons of water a day yes that is a lot of water but it sure beats the pain of trying to pee a rock.so when we go camping we fill the 52 gal water tank on the trailer and also take along 10 6 gal jugs that i dump into the trailer tank as needed and that much water will last 10 days as long as i keep the mil from just letting the water run while she washes dishes and brushing her teeth. all of are camping is boondocking so i do as the bears do i go behind the bush and use the little porta-potty we bring along.
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whiteeye42 wrote:mowermech wrote:It is amazing how little water a person really NEEDS to drink. Most people tend to drink much more than is really necessary. I often see people sucking on water bottles all day, every day. That much water is really not required, I have found.
If you ever get kidney stone you will understand why you have to drink lots of water since i have had lots of kidney stones over the past several years i have to drink at the least one to two gallons of water a day yes that is a lot of water but it sure beats the pain of trying to pee a rock.so when we go camping we fill the 52 gal water tank on the trailer and also take along 10 6 gal jugs that i dump into the trailer tank as needed and that much water will last 10 days as long as i keep the mil from just letting the water run while she washes dishes and brushing her teeth. all of are camping is boondocking so i do as the bears do i go behind the bush and use the little porta-potty we bring along.
"It is amazing how little water a person really NEEDS to drink. Most people tend to drink much more than is really necessary. I often see people sucking on water bottles all day, every day. That much water is really not required, I have found. Of course, everybody is different"
If you are going to quote somebody, please use ALL the quote.
Personally, I learned long ago to drink just enough water to keep the perspiration flowing, and avoid being thirsty. Any more than that is wasted.
Oh, yeah, and if the perspiration doesn't taste salty, take salt tablets.
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I have never had a kidney stone. But then, I am not quite 70, so there is still time.
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nina_70 wrote:Water usage depends very much on the individual. We have a 100-gallon fresh water tank and can easily last for 2 weeks (2 people, 3 pets) with that size. For most RVers anywhere from 2-4 gal/person/day should be completely do-able and you might be able to squeeze that down with more conservation and using external water (portable jugs etc.). Most of our usage goes to drinking & washing...very, very little needed for the toilet.
If you're interested I wrote a blog post not that long ago on water conservation tips HERE
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I totally agree with the 2-4 gallons per person per day. By myself, I can do 3 per day + 1 gallon to drink. As we add more people, it is about 2.5 gallons per person + 1 gallon to drink. The half gallon difference is due to the overhead in washing the dishes.
It takes some getting used to in order to take a shower with about 2 gallons of water. In flushing the toilet, most of the time we only deposit liquid, so there is really no need to fill the bowl with water after the flush (you only need about an ounce in there to keep the seals wet). When you go to jettison solid waste, you can add some water to the bowl as the initial step in the process.
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Water consumption will also vary by the availability of water and dump where you're camped.
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We have 100 gallons of fresh water. There are 3 of us.
We have been able to make that last 2 weeks by being a little conservative or 5 days with fairly normal routine. Including two loads of laundry in the on board W/D.
Some tips we use:
> Cook over the outdoor grill or in one pot/pan and use Paper plates and plastic utensils to reduce dishwashing.
> Keep a plastic bucket in the shower to catch water to use to flush the toilet
> Use deep Plastic pans in the sink to hold soapy water and another for rinse water. Use the rinse water to flush the toilet.
> Since we are in the boondocks, men go outside to the bushes for number one during daylight.
> Make sure all leaks in the freshwater system are repaired.
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cruising spud
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Do you have teenage daughters? That makes a difference, too.
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johndeerefarmer
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How much water per flush does it take for the toilet? Do you pump it once and then if that's not enough, pump it again or how does it work?
11 gallons black water capacity just doesn't sound like much to me.
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