direstraits: [AllAboutRVing] About water...

About water...I never bought a filter of any kind...and
I have never consumed the water from my RV-tank...
Used to take what I thought I'd need for a trip from my home faucet...and if I ran out I'd boil any from the tap outside the campsite... In a tight spot I'd even get some from the ladies room in a diner...and boil that...
Today I buy it for coffee and drinking...making anything that takes water...I use bottled water...so cheap today from the stores...compared to filter systems...but I'm only one person...and before it was usually just Leo and Me..or the kids visiting us for a few days...
So far I've never been sick one time...
I can imagine bigger families need to do it other ways...and maybe filtering systems are the better way for them...not sure... not ever having done it...
but I think change alone traveling thru' different states is hard on us all...sulpha and minerals vary...
I'll never forget Killene, Texas...that how you spell it...We were stationed there in the 50's...at Fort Hood...I believe it was...and believe me the water there was so filled with Sulpha I had to drink cracked ice when we went to a restaurant...oooohhhhh that was the foulest tasting water I ever drank...Hope I never to have to taste it again...lol...
I was too young then...Never even thought about boiling it...and wasn't a coffee hound yet then...lol...drank cocoa with the kids...

Hugs Always Viv...

----- Original Message -----
From: Penny
To: AllAboutRVing@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 8:36 AM
Subject: [AllAboutRVing] Re: Water Filtration

--- In AllAboutRVing@yahoogroups.com, "Bill" <billpiep@...> wrote:
>> Hi Pete. Did I ever tell you about the time....in Roswell Nm. at a CG
> I decided to top off my almost empty water tank. I load about 100 gal
> in the 125 gal. tank. Two days later, I was sick as a dog, my dog was
> sick, my girlfriend was sick, but the darn cat was just fine. Another
> time I topped off in Ca. The next day I thought I was dying. I drew a
> sample from my tank and it was full of little critter looking things.
> Before you say something about the condition of my tank, it is
> sanitized 2 times a year. bill >>>

I got sick from water tank water ONCE ! Since then I only use it for
things that are going to be boiled, ie. tea, coffee, and I have 'good'
water, or store bought water for drinking.
A passing cattle truck can contaminate your water tank opening, even if
it is sealed. Bacteria goes all over your rig, you touch your rig, and
there you are ! Germs.
Happy Trails, Penny, TX

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