Drinking Water Poll

What drinking water do you use?

  • Straight from the taps in your van

  • From the taps after a built in filter

  • From the taps but boiled before consumption

  • Bought bottled water

  • Self bottled water

  • From a purpose made water carrier

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SquirrellCook said:
We have a 400l + stainless steel tank. The tank and plumbing are sterilised each year with Milton‘s. We dump the contents before each trip and fill with fresh.
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Best not to use Miltons in Stainless steel tanks, it can corrode. Puriclean is safe however.
 
I would have though most motorhomes were like mine and contained a built in food grade plastic water tank. The one in mine holds about 1200Ltrs and there is a boiler for washing and showering. I do drink water from the taps, but usually my choice of drink is tea or coffee.
 
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Riversmead said:
Best not to use Miltons in Stainless steel tanks, it can corrode. Puriclean is safe however.
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We don't leave it in long for that very reason. Bus gets taken for a drive to mix it up. Then ran through all outlets. Drained and then flushed with clean water.

Good point to mention about Milton's corroding stainless. I doubt if many know that.
 
SquirrellCook said:
We don't leave it in long for that very reason. Bus gets taken for a drive to mix it up. Then ran through all outlets. Drained and then flushed with clean water.

Good point to mention about Milton's corroding stainless. I doubt if many know that.
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If you follow the recommended instructions, you will have no problems.
 
Bottled water is an environmental disaster. You only have to walk along a beach to see where all the plastic bottles end up. There really is no need to buy it anywhere in Western Europe, the tap water is perfectly safe to drink. We have just travelled from Northern Norway down to Greece and filled up from taps in every country we have passed through.
 
I clean out the tank fairly regularly, by rinsing it with tap water. There's enough chlorine in that to do the job.
 
We use a Nature Pure water purifier in the kitchen cold tap for drinking water, works out cheaper and more Eco than bottled water and no chance of nasty bugs. It only takes one scunner to contaminate the fresh water tap with their cassette to really mess you up... it also removes the peat tint from many sources of Scottish water.
 
We use water from the tap in the MH for boiling the kettle for hot drinks.

For cold water we carry a 5 litre water bottle which we refill from potable sources when on site etc and have a 2 litre water jug in the fridge, which we decant into.

Graham :)
 
Poll could do with multiple options, we buy fresh as well as fill our own bottles.
 
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