Plastic Water Cans

"Garden hoses usually don't taint water"

You gotta be kidding. Water out of a garden hose is usually foul.

Hi Lex

Yes the residual water in a garden hose left out in the sun can taint, but when run through and cleared, fresh water while filling the tanks has rarely tainted our water and did only once (well i blame the hose) and that was in a hot area. We have never had a problem in cooler climates.

Mh

I have never used any hose other than a standard garden hose to fill the tanks on my c/t, and have never had any issues whatsoever with taint from the hose...

2 provisos... (a) use a hose that is somewhat 'aged' (not a new one), &

(b) as indicated by Mh, always run enough fresh water through the hose to clear any residual water in the hose, ESPECIALLY if said hose has been lying on the ground in the sun...

Works for me ;-)

YMMV

:)

Lex
A new hose will give a taste, I reackon it's like ants, a hose that's been used a lot over say 12 months should be OK .

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Garden hose will taint water, as well as Clear food grade hose and the nylon reinforced food grade hose. Go to a specialised hose supplier or caravan centre and ask for no taint food grade hose. It is light blue on the out side and white on the inside and is rienforced (nylon). You wont be able to smell the plastic used, meaning it wont taint the water passing through it.

Maybe I'm more susceptible to the plastic taste, but I just walked out and took a mouthful of water out of my garden hose and I consider it undrinkable.
Its a good quality nylex reinforced hose more than 10 years old and I ran it long enough to clear any water out of it.

We have filled our caravan tanks from other people's hoses with only possibly once causing taint and that was in the Pilbara and the hose looked rather old - so possibly degrading from the sunlight.

However surely there us no need to use a hose at all to fill a 20 - 25 litre jerry can; just use a tap. Then again it depends on the quality of the pipes and water delivered to the tap.

Mh

I agree with mother hen and ed I use a garden hose as I cant be botherd getting my u bute windup material hose out and providing I run water out 1st its all good,come on we have to toughen up I drank out of cement covered hoses on work sites lots of times just like cordial just another flavour LOL!!

40lt ? x4 = 160lt sitting on the floor under the bed extension , how the hell do you lift them in when full ?

Easy. One at a time. They just slide in sideways. Not joking but we can both do it. I had the supports for the bed straightened to sit vertically for just that reason. You can also slide the 9Kg gas bottles in the same way.

Phil

Still finding it hard to believe , you sure you did'nt mean the 20/25 lt square drum and not 40lt = 40kg when full.

The square white ones. 40Kg isn't a lot anyway. No blody OH&S here.

I will go and check when the car comes back from the service.

Okay

YOU WIN.

Couldn't wait for the car. I just looked at where we purchased them. They are 25 litre water cubes. My error. So that means we carry 100 litres. That's plenty for us.

You can tell I am not a water bottle sucker. Don't drink the stuff. Its only good for washing and a cuppa anyway.

Phil

A clear remote stream. LOL

We used to drink the water out of a "Clear remote stream" ( well 3 hours walk from the nearest road)

Tasted Ok, still alive 40 years later

Only thing was a septic tank from 50 peoples effluent emptied into it 6 miles upstream.

As well as that plenty of Deer doing their thing into it as well

They aren't a hygienic as you think


ROFL

Graham,

We are tougher than you think. A true story to illustrate my point.

We made camp in the dark that night and set about cooking tea. The first thing I did was go down to the waters edge and filled the billy to make a pot of tea. As I sank the billy into the water it bumped against a tree root and I turned it around and sank it into the water to fill. I repeated the procedure many times that night. Next morning I went down to the water to fill the billy again, for the morning cuppa. That tree root turned out to be a cow pat.

As for you after drinking that polluted water your still alive. In the 6 miles that water bounced and bubbled over the rocks and dirt it came clear and clean enough to sustain life without doing any damage.

The bugs that were left in it from the dear and other animals doing there thing in it actually served to exercise your imune system making it and therefore you stronger and more resilient.

It tasted better than that 'hygenic' stuff you get out of the tap too.

Duncs

Just to show it doesnt always follow, try this also true one.

At the start of each summer season we used to go up to the highest hut we worked at (3500Ft)

Got up there, felt thirsty, turned tap on, oh good, water.

Each of us made a cup of Milo and thought, Hmm that tastes a bit strange.

Had drunk half by this time.

Went out side and looked in water tanks.

YUK two dead Keas in them One was decomposed to a skeleton and feathers.

Oh Dear what do we do now.!!!!

Decided to hightail for home which was 4 miles down hill.

Well we got not quite a mile and off it went

Both ends at once.

A funnier sight youve never seen with for of us squatting there gradually getting thinner and paler.

I have had a colonoscopy but the stuff didnt clean me out as good as a dead Kea


Lesson learned Check the water tanks next year ROFL

as a kid all we had to drink from was water tanks at school and at home. During the mouse pagues the tanks would have layers of dead mice on top.

but its all we had to drink - so you dont look