Recycling Water for the Toilet

[tr206]

If you know your going into the boonies get paper plates cups plastic forks spoons etc, use wet ones for personal hygiene, take a leak outside or wait til the waters brown flush it down. To me recycling water is gross and risk disease. Also buy a bunch of bottle (or gallons whatever) water for extra water capacity.

[Jim Blackwood]

I'm solidly in the "add more fresh water" camp and built a 275g fresh water tank.That will eventually run out but it'll be rare that happens before I can get to a good fresh water source. I have about as much interest in using gray water to flush as I do in using it to shower which is to say no thanks. I can imagine that could make the bathroom a pretty stinky place and I'm putting a lot of effort into making it less stinky. In my experience that is the bane of the RV life. I'm not about to start taking backwards steps.

Jim

[luvrbus]

I am amazed the price people like my wife pays for drinking water, she buys the Alkaline water that has the minerals removed then putback,she pays more for a gal of the stuff than you pay for a gal of diesel in Needles CA,She didn't care for my drink diesel it is better for you dig

[freds]

I am amazed the price people like my wife pays for drinking water, she buys the Alkaline water that has the minerals removed then putback,she pays more for a gal of the stuff than you pay for a gal of diesel in Needles CA,She didn't care for my drink diesel it is better for you dig

Ok I am sort of in her camp, though planning on lots of filters and water treatments for future additions to my water system.

Right now most of the water that I consume passes through the Keurig coffee/tea maker and hey I do buy the Alkaline water for it like she does.

I generally have three bottles open at any point in time. Which are:

1. Coffee maker
2. Medicine cabinet
3. Night stand for the middle of the night.

[windtrader]

Not going to recycle water to the toilet, just don't use that much. shower uses more than flushing, washing dishes uses a bit too.
We buy bottled gallon water and keep on the counter for drinking, cooking, and espresso machine. Water in the tanks gets filtered on the way in. Works fine for shower, washing.
Good balance of storage and use so no changes here.

[sledhead]

get one of these and problem solved with out having bottled water

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[dtcerrato]

Some studies show that water in the southern region of the Mississippi River has already passed through seven human bodies. 

[luvrbus]

get one of these and problem solved with out having bottled water

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Let her buy her water I don't need another system to maintain, LOL she buys test strips to check her bodies PH,my test strips for antifeeze don't work for her but I tried  ,I looked into one of those a few months ago changing filters every 75 gals would cost more than the bottled water

[Glennman]

Some studies show that water in the southern region of the Mississippi River has already passed through seven human bodies. 

If you consider the billions of people (don't forget the animals too) who have been drinking water since the beginning of time, the seven bodies is no doubt a minimum. Being that we are all drinking recycled water (since new water doesn't come from outer space), there's probably many more bodies than that!

[sledhead]

Let her buy her water I don't need another system to maintain, LOL she buys test strips to check her bodies PH,my test strips for antifeeze don't work for her but I tried  ,I looked into one of those a few months ago changing filters every 75 gals would cost more than the bottled water

the system in the coach I change the filters once a year and the cost is about $45 for all

at work we are on town water ( smells and tastes like pool water )
so I put a similar system in and we are going on 4 years without changing the filters with still great tasting water and no pool smell
this is used just for drinking and coffee , some cooking

[chessie4905]

In all our travels last two summers, we used campsite water with one of those blue sausage Camco filter. All drinking water was then run through a Brita. We also bought some gallons of water at Walmart for making iced tea. Also some bottled water for convince in the truck while travelling.

[luvrbus]

We travel with a Berky I don't know if they work or not, but she believes it does,they seem overpriced to me and filters are very expensive for a Berky.She runs all the cooking and dogs' water through the Berky from the tank 

[dtcerrato]

We drink water out of our potable water tank through a small dedicated filtered faucet for 43 years now. Once in a blue moon we'll empty the tank, fill it with fresh water with a cup of bleach, drain it, fill it again with fresh water and a quart of white vinegar, then empty it and flush it and fill fresh. What I tend to be concerned with is city water that tastes like pool water or chlorine. Chlorine kills 99.9% of germs, when chlorine is present in PPM more than it should be (and it happens a lot) it means the water is being shocked due to contaminants. Yeah Dad also had his hands in the municipal water department - nightmare stories...

[luvrbus]

Chlorine's life is short lived in only last for a few hours,water suppliers usually do it around midnight while you are asleep,and some will blow it out a fire hydrant before you wake up.Needle CA is the hot spot for MJ growers now and they use only non treated water from the Colorado River,that weed doesn't do good with Chlorine, I take it   

[windtrader]

Geez - whatever we've been drinking hasn't kiilled us old farts yet. keep on drinking what y'all drinking.