Do you drink water from your onboard tank?

For making coffee, for cooking or for cleaning my teeth - yes, and have done so for 14 years without problem. The wife drinks bottled water but I drink red wine! :)
 
usually drink it straight from the tank .if doubts on where it came from use a filter .but never clean it with anything just chlorinated water.
 
will do when from home or just buy 5 ltre container from smarkets that do me and then use other for washing etc if run out then boil it first if not sure
 
just remembered you been in portugal,i filled up regular from monchique springs.of course i drank it,other times i got water from public taps,sod drinking that,some of it even smelt funny.never felt i had to clean out the tank though
 
n brown said:
just remembered you been in portugal,i filled up regular from monchique springs.of course i drank it,other times i got water from public taps,sod drinking that,some of it even smelt funny.never felt i had to clean out the tank though
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There's nothing better than drinking fresh spring or mountain water and like you I'd have no problem with filling the onboard tank. However I do keep my drinking water seperate from the onboard tank. Maybe I'm over careful but thats okay..
 
DRoader said:
There's nothing better than drinking fresh spring or mountain water and like you I'd have no problem with filling the onboard tank. However I do keep my drinking water seperate from the onboard tank. Maybe I'm over careful but thats okay..
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ah but !my attitude was for me and my 4 kids to drink the water wherever we were,and build up the antibodies.the kids are now grown up and don't do ' ill ' or see doctors.overcareful may not be the right move
 
n brown said:
ah but !my attitude was for me and my 4 kids to drink the water wherever we were,and build up the antibodies.the kids are now grown up and don't do ' ill ' or see doctors.overcareful may not be the right move
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I think there is a lot to be said for that, I just enjoy really fresh water
 
My lovely motorhome came with an inbuilt water filter system (3M) and I replace the cartridge every year or two so we've no worries about drinking the water. The lavatory uses water from the fresh water tank as well so we even flush with filtered water. How posh is that eh?
 
n brown said:
ah but !my attitude was for me and my 4 kids to drink the water wherever we were,and build up the antibodies.the kids are now grown up and don't do ' ill ' or see doctors.overcareful may not be the right move
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I was brought up in the 70s on tap water from Wales. I'm not sure it kept me that healthy really. I have allergies aplus now but nothing life threatening. But you know what this isn't about the water its about how you store it
 
Never, nice warm slimey tanks breeding ground for bugs. Never shower in this water if standing for some time.

Use bottled water.
 
Call me a wimp but never, not after being sick as dog for several days after drinking water out of someones campervan! And I mean really really out of it! I always take large plastic container with lid thats easy to fill up anywhere for drinking water and brews, and use on board water for washing up and getting washed.
 
Robmac said:
I think there is a lot to be said for that, I just enjoy really fresh water
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same here,lots of good springs about when you get the hang of an area. we just never had the money to buy water,and if the only water you could find was out of a tap in a gents bog in the arab quarter of bordeaux,well ,you think, the locals drink it,why not.honestly i'm not kidding,none of us had any problems in years
 
I did in my former life, but not now! ;)

Actually we do, but only after cleaning and thoroughly sterilising the tank when we buy the vehicle and on a regular basis thereafter.
 
MORGANTHEMOON said:
Never, nice warm slimey tanks breeding ground for bugs. Never shower in this water if standing for some time.

Use bottled water.
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See whats happened now. The ignorant, on this issue, have arrived. And yes you do deserve that MORGANTHEMOON.
 
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