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04-22-2009, 12:53 PM
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 |  Water Supply When you go camping do you bring enough water to last the trip or do you get water locally? If you get water on site do you filter it and how so? I try to being enough water with me, usually in big jugs, however there have been times I had to boil some. However, I have seen people drink it straight from streams. | ||||||||
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04-23-2009, 01:49 AM
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| I take as much as possible with me, unless I was in an emergency situation I would not drink from a stream and certainly not without boiling it first. | ||||||||
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04-23-2009, 09:12 AM
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| My family and I have never been on a long trip in which we would need a lot water. We usually just take enough for 1 or 2 days. This is usually about 3 or 4 jugs. | ||||||||
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04-25-2009, 10:37 AM
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04-25-2009, 02:31 PM
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| We bring water with us when camping. We don't know what the run off has meandered through before reaching a nearby stream, and one never knows when bears might be at the water's edge when you go to fill up a canteen! | ||||||||
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04-26-2009, 01:25 PM
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| We usually bring jugs of water. So far we have not ever run out. I imagine you could always boil the water at the campground if you did run out and didn't want to use it to drink. | ||||||||
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04-27-2009, 03:51 AM
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04-27-2009, 08:22 PM
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| Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New Port Richey, Florida Posts: 39
| I don't bring water with us. I made a water filter out of pvc, filter material, and carbon. I had used it alot when i had fish tanks but I got rid of the tanks. Now i am looking for something smaller to use at home and take camping. | ||||||||
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04-28-2009, 06:27 AM
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04-28-2009, 08:40 PM
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| Yes. I do belive it makes the water taste different. I guess you could think of it as an R/O system but without the expensive membrane. The filter material stops any sediment and the carbon takes out any impurities. I had put a pvc hose fitting on the end, then made it to the 2" pipe with some sort of fittings, then reduced it back down to the hose fitting at the other side. Inside the 2" pipe which is about 2' long stuffed with filter material, then carbon in the middle, the more filter material. One side connects between the homemade filter to the spigot via a short hose and the other end out of the filter via another short hose to fill or refill any containers we need for drinking water or whatever. | ||||||||
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