Anyone who won't drink water from a reasonably-serviced Westy water tank--or any other camper water tank for that matter--shouldn't be camping. Jim On May 18, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Without trying to beat a dead horse on this thread, I think the main point > is that > you need to know your equipment and it's limitations and deal with your > individual > situations case by case. If you don't trust the tank to be used for > drinking water > or at all then you're carring around an large empty piece of plastic that is > taking > up valuable real estate in your already confined space. > > It has already been stated several methods of maintaining this piece of > plastic for > reasonably acceptable drinking, washing & hygene water. I think most of > the > list can gleen (if necessary) what they need to know and how to proceed if > they > want or don't want to use the water storage tank.... > > But if you're going to rely on bottled water... well, I think David covered > that > pretty well.... > > Steven > 91 Westy > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:47 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > >> At 01:26 AM 5/18/2011, neil n wrote: >> >>> least a few times. That said, if I'm low on drinking water, tank water >>> is boiled for coffee or tea. Otherwise, it's for dishes and brushing >>> teeth. >>> >> >> Why? The Westy water tank is a big polyethylene bottle. You buy >> milk in the supermarket in a big polyethylene bottle (you buy little >> bottles of water in PETE bottles that aren't nearly so chemically >> benign, according to stuff I've heard on PBS lately). It uses >> food-grade hoses to the faucet. It's nicely sealed up. Sanitize it >> occasionally, put clean water in it, it will stay clean for a long time. >> >> If you want a shock, have some cultures taken of the Westy water >> system, and similar cultures taken of your portable water bottle >> after you've been drinking from it all day. >> >> Yours, >> David >> |
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