Safe water hose use and storage

[dkoldman]

Funny thing is most of us grew up drinking water out of a garden hose that laid out in the yard in the summer heat!!

We use gallon jugs of spring water, works great for our rig!

My Great grandmother had a hand cranked water pump in her front yard, it is where all her water came from. Just pumped it right from the ground. To this day I never understood how it came out the ground nice and cold? I think her direct grandchildren still live on the property. But of course they have connected with the city and have bottled water. Not to be a Ducketeer, but in 6 years out of the many problems shared on this forum, not sure I have NOT seen or heard of an issue of a RV'er getting sick due to water hose or freshwater tank for that matter. Common sense usually prevails. Maybe the person that buys a used RV that has been sitting 10 years and on day one that may just drink the water from the now Stalewater tank direct from the faucet without evening asking if it has been sanitized.

 

[ducksface]

Funny thing is most of us grew up drinking water out of a garden hose that laid out in the yard in the summer heat!!

If we used us as a study group for drinking from hoses as children I think you'll find it may cause;

A willingness to avail the CONTRACTION of knowledge into dire, punctilious, unlit, purposefully darkened, views of the most common broad things like hoses, and then we contemplate the hose's affect on Man-in-the-Moon marigolds when we should be thinking about keeping up with the flow of traffic.

It's a hose folks.
We park ourselves at
Bubba's Used-Bait Shop, Horse-Kill, and Transient Travellers Hole-Up
then we lean over a septic hole so we can look in it to make sure nothing rabid is living in it, pump 20 gallons of fumes and 20 gallons solids from a tank you've NEVER even thought to sanitize into said hole, while that hole (going to even god doesn't know where), due to physics unthought of, back-spews a cloud(if you can smell it, it's inside of you...that's law, not conjecture)of a dozen generations of meth-head and cancerous grandpa stuff you can't imagine due to a lack of imagination caused by the contrived parameters required to support those punctilious thoughts of hoses.

Or,
possibly the reason some folks are obsessed by the most common of commons is that single gamma ray that smacked you on the temple while sitting too close to a b&w TV one time at band camp when you were six years old.

This whole
'Hoses be scary'
thing is absolutely
A tempest in a tea-pot.

Buy a new hose when fears need allayed.
Then only residual manufacturing chemicals and ambient temperatures need scare you.
Typhoid and mrsa was mentioned simply(and entirely wrongly)to scare folks who won't do any research because the scare is comfortable.
BPA is controversial only because scientists who were wrong won't let go of their canted gain-of-function thesis.


Punchline:
Please Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

 

[happy-THOR]

This is a story about RV Water:
Article today about a person using RV water with a nasal cleaner and paid the cost.
Shows that some users for specific needs should sanitize.

Woman dies of brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in nasal rinse device

The fatal brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri claimed the life of a Texas woman who used contaminated water in her nasal rinse, as the CDC highlights potential risks.

www.foxnews.com

 

[16ACE27]

This is a story about RV Water:
Article today about a person using RV water with a nasal cleaner and paid the cost.
Shows that some users for specific needs should sanitize.

Woman dies of brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in nasal rinse device

The fatal brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri claimed the life of a Texas woman who used contaminated water in her nasal rinse, as the CDC highlights potential risks.

www.foxnews.com

I'll bet the instructions for that "nasal cleaner" specifically calls for distilled water.

What was it Ron White and Larry the Cable guy always said?

 

[ducksface]

This is a story about RV Water:
Article today about a person using RV water with a nasal cleaner and paid the cost.
Shows that some users for specific needs should sanitize.

Woman dies of brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in nasal rinse device

The fatal brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri claimed the life of a Texas woman who used contaminated water in her nasal rinse, as the CDC highlights potential risks.

www.foxnews.com

A sincere case calling for the use of bpa laden plastic bottles of water to inject unknowns directly into your head.

If this article instills fear
What thought should we distill concerning those instilled with this fear?

 

[ghnl]

This is a story about RV Water:
Article today about a person using RV water with a nasal cleaner and paid the cost.

This case reinforces the potential for serious health risks associated with improper use of nasal irrigation devices,

To prevent contracting the fatal infection, the CDC recommends using "distilled, sterile or boiled and cooled tap water for nasal irrigation," as "improperly maintained" municipal water and RV water systems carry the risk of disease.

 

[ducksface]

I'll take my chances on being the one of ten yearly who get the brain problem since I know(ish), from my long known base knowledge of this insanely rare, too rare to regard, 1:36,000,000 thing; that 8 of those 10 infected folk are boys under 16.


The article is fluff sold by a word-seller, who is paid per word to write a specific number of words to fill a specific space with a story commissioned for a certain situational need...like bolstering a grant by being able to use this article as a 'proof'.

Did you know there's a small fish that is attracted to urine and will swim up a urethra and can't be extracted except by surgery due to it having barbles that face rearward?
Be fearful?

Did you know wolves were involved in only 2 deaths in north America since about 1890 and/since recorded history there have been less than 20 that are real and not speculative?
Be afraid.

 

[lwmcguire]

As noted, flushing out a hose with city water is certainly a good way to make sure it is clean enough for your tank. Water a tree/shrub at the site after connecting the hose. there is more likelyhood of getting bacteria from Cousin Eddy using his black water hose on the spigot than from your properly stored hose. Spray off the spigot with peroxide or bleach and if you want to spray a bit into the hose, do so and get to camping.

 

[ducksface]

As noted...get to camping.

Exactly.

 

[Scubawise]

Welcome back Scubzce, I was starting to worry about you, but you can't be telling the Chateau guy his ideas are great when it is too much work I got tired from reading his instructions, no way I can do all that in real life. If you got a trip next week, you better get started now if you want freshwater per those instructions in your tank before leaving. I got a trip this weekend. I had 1/3rd tank freshwater left from my Memorial day trip. I just added 2/3rd more water and I was done. I did drain both tanks so they are empty. Funny thing is I may spend more freshwater flushing my black tank than I do putting in the freshwater tank.

Thanks! Lora is a frequent water checker.
Yesterday I ran the bleach as Chateau suggested and so far way faster than what I was doing. Also cleaning the hose makes sense. Always use the blue filter when filling FW tank. We use a Berkie like filter in the rig. So twice filtered. We use the bath & shower with the FW tank. In the southwest heat we have noticed the FW tank needs to be emptied cleaned more. Enjoy your trip.
We have many trips that are 1.5 to 2 hours from home until our big Montana trip.

 

[MJC68]

50 posts on the water hose! WOW! I am finding it hard to find something to add to all that.
We sanitize the tank at least twice a season. After we use our hose, we flush it out, gravity drain it and if I remember wipe the ends with a sanitizing wipe before we twist the ends together and throw it in the storage. As LW said then we get to camping

 

[dkoldman]

If you so concerned down to wanting distilled water. You may wish to buy one of these. Amazon.com

You may also use it to make your own distilled spirits, but be careful how much of that distilled water you carry in your freshwater tank across state lines.

Like what was said before, bottled water is all you need, I suggest trying one of these bottled waters, you can leave it in the bottle or tank year around and never have to worry about bacteria. If you use a hose it cleans it while filling. Save time and be worry free.

 

[ducksface]

Waaaait...
You can distill water?
I know nothing about distillation

 

[dkoldman]

Waaaait...
You can distill water?
I know nothing about distillation

Yes sir you can, but a caution to those that might be seeking distilled water or similar. It can be hazardous to your health. Water that is pure lacks beneficial minerals and electrolytes like calcium and magnesium that are naturally found in tap water. It is like eating a steak that has been purified with bleach to kill all of the bacteria and blood on the meat.

 

[ducksface]

It's always something.
If it's not one thing it's another.
If it's not this it's that.

Signed,
Lisa Loopner doing an Emily Litella schtick

(And after reading comments here who would doubt that some folks eat their steak heavily bleached)

 

[dkoldman]

It's always something.
If it's not one thing it's another.
If it's not this it's that.

Signed,
Lisa Loopner doing an Emily Litella schtick

(And after reading comments here who would doubt that some folks eat their steak heavily bleached)

 

[dkoldman]

For years all Anheuser Busch Budweiser was made and brewed in St. Louis MO. It became so popular they expanded to a 2nd location in Newark, NJ where they had all types of quality issues, environmental issues with water etc. The Budweiser beer from Newark, NJ just didn't taste the same. Anheuser Busch will try to deny, but one of the reasons why the beer taste better out of St Louis was due to rats at the old original brewery. The rats were infested in the grains and would get get filtered in the beer making process. In Newark, NJ they had stringent quality and environmental controls thus they lacked sufficient quantities of rats. It is unknown for sure how Anheuser Busch solved the problem, I suspect they may have put an end to their rat controls. All I know is today a Budweiser taste the same no matter where it is brewed.

 

[ghnl]

All I know is today a Budweiser taste the same no matter where it is brewed.

Which is not saying much...

 

[ghnl]

It's always something.
If it's not one thing it's another.
If it's not this it's that.

 

[rudyhehn]

As many noted above we feel secure with using water through our fresh water hose. In 10 years we have never become sick but I guess to each their own. We do a simple hose drain when breaking camp. I leave the male end attached to the RV water intake and I screw in a purchased dead-end plug to the female end. Works for us.