Drinking water onboard options

[Two on Tour]

Hi All, I wisely see that most people use their inboard water tanks for washing-up, showering etc BUT not really for drinking.

What do you all use to carry your drinking water in & what size containers for 2 people ideally?

Keen to see your favourite container types, storage permitting.

Thks

Mark

I fitted a cartridge type water filter with a separate tap for drinking water, saves all the faffing of buying, carrying and storing bottled water.

 

[jumar]

Just a peak inside our tank will change your minds.
Sediment is evident..lurking in the bottom...caused by ourselves filling up at so many locations...naughty us..
But we don't drink from the tank...we take filtered water from the apartment at the start of the trip...and when possible, I use an outdoor activities filter to replenish our 3 litre drinking water supply...
Remember the days in Spain... don't drink the water or refuse ice in the G&T.. well that's long gone...water quality is safe...but it's taste that's a deciding factor...putting stuff in to help maintain Oral hygiene...is a definite NO..for tea and coffee..

 

[VXman]

We just carry a 1.5.litre bottle for drinking water which we top up when we top up the main tank.

Generally we don't drink much water - plenty of tea (water from the tank) and wine! The only time we really have water is at night by the bed. Maybe we drink more in hotter climes

 

[peterc10]

RULE 1. NEVER trust a campsite/aire/camperstop hose.

Remove the hose, disinfect the tap using spray and/or hand wipe, screw your own adaptor on it and attach your own hose or use your own watering cans.

As for where to attach the microbial filter, we put it on the line to the basin tap. We always draw our cooking and drinking water from it. Also use it to clean our teeth.

 

[L' Hobo]

Water?
Who drinks water?
Tea, beer...

It's okay as long as you remember to disinfect your inner pipework with alcohol spirit after!

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[EuroTrotters]

I have, it was just water and citric acid.

I never leave the water to go stagnant though. It’s always flushed through with fresh or emptied.

Mine was horrible stringy black bacteria

 

[Shrimp]

Have you not seen our friends over the channel use the same faucet for fresh water and cleaning their black tank?

That’s why we always clean the tap with disinfectant wipes before use and never allow the tap to touch the opening of the can.
We use a 5ltr can for fresh drinking water and it sits at the side of the Hab door inside, bu things are gonna have to change with the new-to us-van!

 

[denisejoe]

All ways use tank don’t have a filter but we don’t drink a lot of water most is boiled for tea and coffee use tank for teeth cleaning as well, use our own hose and carry wet wipes if the tap looks dodgy.

 

[Armytwowheels]

We drink the water from the the built in tank. We have an in line 3M microbial water filter.

What he said

 

[Go_buddy_go_]

Refillable container for drinking water always use own hose for tank filling

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[Lenny HB]

I never leave the water to go stagnant though. It’s always flushed through with fresh or emptied.

Ditto, and after every return to home, (summer or winter), the system is completely drained down ready for the next fresh fill.

Cheers,

Jock.

Snap.

 

[JJ]

I use a Berkey water filter.

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JJ

 

[Just smiffy]

If everyone saw the pipes and holding tanks that goes to your kitchen tap at home you’d never drink that either….

 

[Jev88]

Purisol tank and we drink from it.