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
>>