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Originally Posted by Travelin' Texans
Guess we should be very sick or dead!
Never sanitized a rv fw tank in 40+ years of rving! After 10 years of fulltiming had our hose connected to spigots all across the country & drank from the faucet at every stop with never an issue. I did however have the hose connected to a sediment filter then a water softener then through a charcoal filter then to the rv, also filled my tank through this system, water always smelled & taste good.
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That's good to hear. You've been very fortunate.
I know I've taken my chances on more than one occasion, but one of the buggers with a lot of the food and water borne illness that we experience is that we often mistake it for something else, thanks to the time it can take for some of the nasties to populate.
Then there are those that accumulate even more slowly and are absorbed into your bones or fatty tissue before manifesting as some weird blood disease or cancer. All working in synergy with the ever increasing level of environmental toxins that are increasing all around us every day - at a rate of about 2,000 new chemicals a year in the U.S. There are over 60,000 out there already that have never even been tested by themselves, much less in interaction with all of the others - for any kind of safety. So ya rolls the dice and takes yer chances...
I unfortunately, was an inadvertent victim of a very serious environmental poisoning that left me with no tolerance to all sorts of chemicals, so I'm more than a bit phobic. The biological stuff and pharmacology screw with your gut biome, which IS your immune system, so things like big hammer/little bug antibiotics can mess that up and allow other lesser threats make an even bigger impact.
It's all kinda sad, but our progress always seems to be a race between our technology and trying to clean up after it.
That charcoal that you mentioned always works really great. It's just a pain trying to guess when it's absorbed all that it can. I hate having to throw anything away, so I've been trying to work with things that I can clean and re-use as much as possible. Just a different kinda pain.
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