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[Wellington]

Oh Gods, what’s wrong with Naturepure? I think that’s what we’ve got.

Previously, I have only ever used bottled, or refilled directly from the site taps. But in this Motorhome, there is just nowhere to put (or stow) a water bottle in the kitchen, so i thought we’d manage with the filter. Refilling bottles won’t help if the tap is the problem and we haven’t previously stopped at supermarkets often enough to keep stocked with drinking water.

I can think of few things worse than a child with D and V in a motorhome.

 

[Hymer 1961]

I’m going to use bottled for drinking whether hot or cold. But need sterilising tabs too ... can you get some you just put in every time you top up fresh water? I’m thinking washing up, brushing teeth etc. Gross.

Aqua Sol Complete Water Treatment - Amazon and other outlets
It leaves no taste and keeps the water safe.

 

[SpeedyDux]

On the recent trip, I discovered that French tapwater tastes much better than the water that comes out of the taps at home, which needs a filter to make it palatable. I refill plastic bottles for drinking and cooking in the MH.

The onboard water tank gets topped up with a trusty 10L watering can (good exercise!), never the dubious hose provided by others; because, as this thread demonstrates, the chances are that some thoughtless unhygenic git contaminated it with fecal matter. Disgusting. Yukk.

PS - I got flamed on another forum for opining that Naturepure wasn't the dog's danglers.

 

[Janine]

I was at a festival in the uk last year where the Elsann point tap had been labelled as drinking water. After watching a couple of people filling their water canisters from the tap, I explained the error to the management. They asked whether I intended coming to the festival again the next year!!!

 

[peterc10]

A simple motto of mine is to never yrust a campsite (or Aire) hose. I always take it off, clean tbe tsp with disinfectant spray and wet wipe then fit my own hose.

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[denisejoe]

I use disinfectant wipes and also make sure we use our own hose not one provided by the site/ Aire. Just remembered need to buy some more used the last on a recent trip. Might try the disinfectant spray and a wipe, that would save finding the disinfectant wipes again and I already have a disinfectant spray in the van.

Denise

 

[Camping Gaza]

On the recent trip, I discovered that French tapwater tastes much better than the water that comes out of the taps at home, which needs a filter to make it palatable. I refill plastic bottles for drinking and cooking in the MH.

My tap water here in France comes from the same region as expensive bottled water you buy in the UK (Vichy)

Every year I get from the water company a detailed analysis of my water supply it lists the amount of elements in the water, nitrates, pesticides, fluorine, iron, arsenic, selenium etc etc. permissible/not permissible, I don't ask for it, it just turns up.

I travel often to the UK, and live in France, and I can state, and with the utmost qualification report that:

1. The water from the household tap AND on bournes (service points) on Aires is totally safe throughout France

2. The water from my own tap in France is to my taste far superior to any water from the tap in the UK. It's like drinking expensive bottled water from the supermarket. (in fact it tastes fresher, don't know why it just does.)

3. It makes great, and I mean great tea, with no scum floating like in the UK

And for your information:

The source of the water on service points for both the cassette rinse and drinking are the same despite the rinse water being labelled as non potable (its for clarity UNLESS there is no potable tap so use caution)
I have used the rinse water in emergencies for my main tank with no problems when I don't have a jeton for the main water.

I tried to tell a tw&t from Yorkshire on a forum like this the above and he slated me for the fact the French government issues detailed analysis of the water supply and would not trust it.

...He may have also stated that he thought the queen and the royal family are from an alien lizard race, but I can't be 100% sure of that.

 

[Grianan]

Thanks, ordered the aqua clean tabs.

 

[Reallyretired]

We have always found the water in France to be good to excellent, often the same stuff as the expensive bottles but not as stale.
Spain especially in the south is a very different matter though. I'm sure it's safe but can taste quite nasty, I gather its mainly de-salinated sea water.

 

[denisejoe]

It's not the fact that most of the water is potable it's the fact that some people are rinsing their cassettes under the potable water by inserting the tap inside the tube!

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[makems]

If possible I always used to remove any existing hose and replace with my own to fill water tanks and also used purifying tablets. EVEN IN THE UK. (dirty 8astards exist in the UK too!)

 

[Camping Gaza]

It's not the fact that most of the water is potable it's the fact that some people are rinsing their cassettes under the potable water by inserting the tap inside the tube!

Absotivley!

Always carry in your gas locker or where ever you stow your hoses etc a good spray disenfectant and spray on the tap, and up the tap hole. Leave for 1 min and run the tap. connect up hose or fill yer boots !(watering can/container!)

 

[Buzzybee]

We use Aqua Clean tablets and drink only filtered water when we are away having fun, cos having a dicky tummy really spoils the holiday even Obe our dog is fussy about what he drinks! He is trained to bark at people that have bad toilet and water filling habits so he does a lot of barking! Don’t know what he would do if we travelled abroad-go barking mad?. Luckily he can’t afford a dog passport!

 

[Allanm]

I never use any hoses already attached, spray the tap with a bleach solution if it looks like it could do with it, run the tap for a few seconds, fit my own hose connector and hose, run water through the hose for a few seconds, then fill up.

We use the tank water for everything, we don’t use plastic bottles or buy water ( our French water tastes good)
I don’t see the point of having 150 litres of water onboard and then buying more. We generally have a couple of 25 litre Jerry cans that we fill out of season in case we have problems getting water.
I can only remember one aire that we visited where I didn’t fancy the look of the drinking water tap, that was at Limoux. We didn’t stay there either.
Also, not keen on using the Flot Bleu bornes, they are ones with the door on the side with the black waste drain next to the pistol type filler and hose. That always gets a mega shot of bleach, but we only use it if desperate.

 

[denisejoe]

We don't like Flot Bleu Bournes either and refuse to use them. We fill up the water when we get to about half tank so if the next Aire is a Lot Bleu we'll leave it until the following one. We also only use the on board water and refill a plastic bottle or two to leave in the fridge in case we want a cold drink.

Denise

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[romany]

always add Elsil when filling tank as others say also take fitted hose of and disinfect then fit my own

 

[pandas]

My tap water here in France comes from the same region as expensive bottled water you buy in the UK (Vichy)

Every year I get from the water company a detailed analysis of my water supply it lists the amount of elements in the water, nitrates, pesticides, fluorine, iron, arsenic, selenium etc etc. permissible/not permissible, I don't ask for it, it just turns up.

I travel often to the UK, and live in France, and I can state, and with the utmost qualification report that:

1. The water from the household tap AND on bournes (service points) on Aires is totally safe throughout France

2. The water from my own tap in France is to my taste far superior to any water from the tap in the UK. It's like drinking expensive bottled water from the supermarket. (in fact it tastes fresher, don't know why it just does.)

3. It makes great, and I mean great tea, with no scum floating like in the UK

And for your information:

The source of the water on service points for both the cassette rinse and drinking are the same despite the rinse water being labelled as non potable (its for clarity UNLESS there is no potable tap so use caution)
I have used the rinse water in emergencies for my main tank with no problems when I don't have a jeton for the main water.

I tried to tell a tw&t from Yorkshire on a forum like this the above and he slated me for the fact the French government issues detailed analysis of the water supply and would not trust it.

...He may have also stated that he thought the queen and the royal family are from an alien lizard race, but I can't be 100% sure of that.

I think you maybe missing the main point being made here: some people use the 'designated' drinking water hose/tap to clean out their toilet cassette and no mater how superior your French water supply is you could still could end up with a health issue via contamination between black waste and drinking water. No need to worry in France though as the French are one of the best for being respectful and responsible.

 

[Scotch mist]

We all have vacations to help our immune system which is basically intentionally infecting our bodies with germs , A little bit of contamination helps to keep your immune system in good order , so I would never
be too annal about germs , the chemicals sprayed to disinfect may actually do your body more harm than the germs it’s trying to kill but obviously I wouldn’t deliberately use a contaminated hose

 

[denisejoe]

Not always a french couple were using the fresh water tap even though there was a tap over dump hole when pointed just got the shrug

 

[Mr Mousy]

We installed the same filter as Popeye and Robert Clark just before our 3 month trip to Greece. It was less than £100. It has saved endless number of plastic water bottles which we previously have bought for drinking water. As well as saving the planet it is so convenient. Below is the filter installed under our bathroom sink, it just feeds the cold side of the tap.

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[Jonno1103]

Edsil every time for us and freshwater tank cleaner. We'll use an aire to empty grey waste nothing more unless we're desperate and again we'll use our own hoses and use an anti bac wipe on the tap. I had very bad Listeria back in 2001 which saw me in hospital on drips, my guts have never been the same since

 

[HelenMalc2019]

This one has crossed my mind with a hired van, what fit the last occupier do?

 

[HelenMalc2019]

It's not the fact that most of the water is potable it's the fact that some people are rinsing their cassettes under the potable water by inserting the tap inside the tube!

And the fact you are stood in the wet residue around the robinet ?

 

[Scotch mist]

Just found this by accident , interesting

ALDE HEATING

Avoid steriliser products containing sodium hyperchlorite, for example, as these will cause severe corrosion damage to the hot water cylinder, and is not covered under warranty. Read the product label or contact the product manufacturer for details

 

[Jonno1103]

Well yeah, it's a bleaching agent, you don't want that anywhere near your hot water supply. The problem is that It's often mixed up with sodium hydrochloride which is a by product of hydrogen peroxide and is used as a steriliser in brewing.

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[hblewett]

We always use our own hose - have to with current motorhome as it’s ‘Whale’, wipe tap anyway with medicated wipe; never used anything to purify and never had a problem in 11 years all across Europe

 

[Sedgewood]

Don't use anything in our water tank, never had any problems. We partly fill from home and in the UK top up at the site, this usually means having to use our own tap connector and hose anyway. We are big tea drinkers so most water is boiled before drinking. However one can get a bit obsessive about these things and in creating a germ free environment if you do pick up a minor infection because your body cannot cope, you get ill.

 

[UKen]

I fill up at home then use a watering can at other fill ups, after cleaning the tap. We don't drink from our storage tank, even though we add a water sterilising tablet. We use bottled water for drinking, cooking etc. .I have to disagree about UK water being YUK! Our's here in Durham is just perfect, as good if not better than any bottled water.

 

[Skipper43]

We are due to pick up our van on the 31st. I have retained a Seagull IV filter that we removed from our boat. I will be looking to fit that to the galley gap and we use that for drinking, cooking etc. The filter is supposed to be good enough to purify swamp water, but we haven’t tried that? The system is not cheap but it is excellent and gives no taste to the water.

 

[Mike Rivers]

Always use Jerry can for fresh water direct from drinking water tap with no hose. Then use whale system to fill on board water tank. This water we use for cooking, cups of tea, washing hands, brushing teeth. 2 Jerry cans usually suffice (20 litres). Wherever possible we use on site facilities for showers and washing up. We have an aqua roll but find it too bulky to cart around. It would obviously come into its own if we hooked up to a super pitch. I think everyone evolves their own system to suit. I’ll certainly be wary now of any hoses attached to drinking water taps. Incredible how dumb and thoughtless some people are!!

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