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Inge
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Topic: Water from rivers and lakes Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 1:34pm |
Very valuable input, guys, thank you!
I'm not worried about getting sick when the water ran through a good filter for drinking water. The pump from the link has an output of 0.5 gpm which would fit to the filter that I looked at. If I can find something faster, that would be preferred for sure. I'm not going to fill the whole tank every day and I would be ok with having the pump running for an hour.
Just so you understand, why I'm interested in this: I'm planning to go on a very long trip, down to Argentina and I'll try to be not much on campgrounds if anyhow possible. So I'm looking for Solar panels for electricity, water supply and once that is figured out, I want to learn how to survive without supermarkets around
I think the idea to use the river/lake water for shower/toilet/washing only and just filter the drinking water is a very good one. I'd still think some kind of filter would be good, as I don't want to have fish in the tank. But I'm not as worried about reselling the trailer.
Hogone: I'll checkout the filters, they look promising.
40k... not really in my budget
By the way, I'm a girl :-)
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 12:21pm |
Actually, if you need to do it, I would use a Big Berkey to filter it, and then transfer to the holding tank on the pod. Ours will do about 3 gallons an hour. It's a gravity filter so all you do is fill and walk away.
I have lived in parts of the world where the water wouldn't make you sick, it would kill you. The Berkey systems WORK.
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 10:18am |
inge: $40,000 isn't bad hogone
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 9:26am |
Good luck trying to sell the camper ever after you mention you put river water in the tank and plumbing system. The only filter system engineered to do this and fill the tank quickly is over $40k and fits on a pallet. I'm a plumber and have installed two in off grid homes. It would be best to not use that water with a camper and stick to using it in a backpacking filter bottle scenario.
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 8:54am |
There are some very good filtering systems out there for backpacking etc. However getting the quantities needed to fill a 30+ gallon tank would be an issue and not really practical. For example the best filter in Inge's link would take over an hour to fill the tank and it isn't even designed for really nasty water! IF I had to depend on lake/river water I'd not drink out of the rpod system, just fill it with particulate filtered water and use for flushing and showers. I'd keep my drinking water separate and run through a very good drinking water filtration system and perhaps still chemically treat it...
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hogone
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 8:25am |
actually it's a very safe filtering system. granted nothing is 100% safe, not the water from your home, not the water from campground hook-ups, etc. just giving inge some ideas to pursue which may be an option if he wishes to pursue. hogone
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 7:26am |
It is not really safe filter or not, if you boiled it first maybe. But beaver fever is not pleasant!!
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 6:57am |
inge: its made by katadyn. #1 rated filter. maybe check there website, they may be strictly backpacking filters/pumps. hogone
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 6:43am |
inge: i can only assume this is possible if you can find the right filter for that quantity of water. I have drank gallons of lake/river/stream water over the years that i ran through my backpacking filter. never once did i get ill. ill check tonight what brand i have, i dont recall off the top of my head. i think it is made in sweden. the filter i have runs through a carbon and ceramic filter. hogone
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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 1:16am |
No, I haven't. But to avoid health issues, I was thinking of a filter as I mentioned.
I'm thinking about
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I use the water filter already at home and in the office. It makes a tastable difference as it removes most of the chlorine. I haven't researched giardia organisms yet but will ask the filter company what they think about it.
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