Oh no! That just happened!

[PepnKook]

Beware filling your fresh water! Never know who's been there before! Pulled into site service point to empty waste and refill, German lady and daughter there with their toilet, fresh water hose deep inside it giving it a good old clean out! I tried to show her where the non drinking hose was, but she got shirty and insisted she was right. Worse to come, she then slides the cover off of the toilet and puts the hose in again! Talk about splash back! Eventually went away and even though we've got a Whale system, so have our own hose, got out the Stanley knife and hacked a good three foot off the hose before the next person put it in their nice clean water tank

 

[EuroTrotters]

THICK DUMB 8ASTARDS

 

[Hils and Glenns]

On the aire at Boulogne. Just watched a man wash out his cassette from the drinking water tap and throw the water on the grass.
Fortunately for us we don't need water at the moment.

 

[Candapack]

Once saw the opposite of that. Dutch bloke filling a fresh water container from the toilet hose. Pointed it out, he said no worries, I always boil it.

 

[GPW]

hacked a good three foot off the hose before the next person put it in their nice clean water tank

You may have saved someone a nasty illness. I may think about an in-line filling filter to plug the hose into, I've seen them used for filling fish ponds.

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[chaser]

Once saw the opposite of that. Dutch bloke filling a fresh water container from the toilet hose. Pointed it out, he said no worries, I always boil it.

Yeah always put sterilising tablets in ours.

 

[Guigsy]

We've not filled many times and just made do if the fresh water fill is conveniently close to the WC point. I also use my own fill hose quite often.

While in Europe we tend to use bottled water, not because we don't trust the water companies, but because we don't trust previous users of the fill point. For us, tank water is for showers and washing up.

 

[Grianan]

I’m going to use bottled for drinking whether hot or cold. But need sterilising tabs too ... can you get some you just put in every time you top up fresh water? I’m thinking washing up, brushing teeth etc. Gross.

 

[pagey]

how about this one grape farmer cleaning out his insecticide sprayer in the aire using the water hose

 

[Servo]

Is that like a shower of shonet ?.

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[Lenny HB]

You may have saved someone a nasty illness. I may think about an in-line filling filter to plug the hose into, I've seen them used for filling fish ponds.

Problem with that is you filter out all the chlorine that's there to purify the water.

 

[chaser]

I’m going to use bottled for drinking whether hot or cold. But need sterilising tabs too ... can you get some you just put in every time you top up fresh water? I’m thinking washing up, brushing teeth etc. Gross.

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[DBK]

...need sterilising tabs too ... can you get some you just put in every time you top up fresh water?

I use Aquaclean, one tablet every 25 litres. I don't use them every time, perhaps no more than once every four weeks or so or after taking on any dodgy water which we did more than once in Corsica on our recent trip there. It was easy to spot. If you filled a glass with water you could see bits floating around in it! I mentioned giardiasis in another thread yesterday and this is a nasty thing to get. It can be found in drinking water and is not killed by the normal chlorine treatment. I don't know if Aquaclean will and the only sure way is a filter.

Edit: chaser beat me to it.

 

[eddie]

if your worried about things like this, buy a decent water filter and then you have no worries

 

[DBK]

if your worried about things like this, buy a decent water filter and then you have no worries

But what is the best filter now after the NaturePure debacle?

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[GAVLAD]

I'm taking my own this year - filthy animals!

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Bottled water is cheap in Europe, nice and handy in 5 to 7 litre containers. Use this for drinking and the rest for showers, washing up and the loo and you will be OK. ?

 

[eddie]

But what is the best filter now after the NaturePure debacle?

I have a Nature Pure filter in the camper, but given the debacle you mention I wouldn't by another on principle. It was about the only gadget that I removed when we sold the old one last year (owning a motorhome "toy shop" means that you always want the latest "toys" so leave everything on the van when you sell it so you can get the "new" stuff )

From memory Robert Clark post that he'd obtained a similar type made by 3M (I think)

 

[Hellski]

We have a decent water filter fitted however, I always take any hose or fittings off the tap, wipe with bacterial wipe, fit own hose and run for a minimum of 40 secs; worked for us so far other than glowing green in the dark

 

[Popeye]

From memory @Robert Clark post that he'd obtained a similar type made by 3M (I think)

That's the one I use too, only on the litchen sink though. Great bit of kit. .

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[DBK]

I have a Nature Pure filter in the camper, but given the debacle you mention I wouldn't by another on principle. It was about the only gadget that I removed when we sold the old one last year (owning a motorhome "toy shop" means that you always want the latest "toys" so leave everything on the van when you sell it so you can get the "new" stuff )

From memory Robert Clark post that he'd obtained a similar type made by 3M (I think)

Something like this perhaps, though these taps are probably more domestic sized than MH sized.

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Edit: Just spotted it needs a minimum pressure of 1.7 bar - but I guess the flow rate will just be slower if the pressure is a bit lower.

 

[Spriddler]

At La Source site at Dieppe May 2018 the scruffy odd job/maintenance guy who lived in a grubby static was rinsing out his cassette in a washing up sink. There was a dedicated drain and hose 10yds away. I remonstrated with him (in good French) but he ignored me. He was later cooking and selling frites from a shed on the site. Yuk!
It now has a lovely young couple as new owners and has been considerable improved. The site has been landscaped, old statics have been replaced with stylish chalets and he's no longer there.
I always use Aquaclean tabs every third fill and have a 5L 'day container' for drinking water.

 

[eddie]

Much cheaper than Nature Pure, when I refitted it I changed the filter and it was about £100 just for the cartridge

 

[Camping Gaza]

I too have seen some horrors, watching some dumbf&%k using the stiff short fill hose to poke his turds through the grating on the dump point.

I did not say a word, It's amazing how a look of disgust and a shake of the head is universally recognised. I quickly moved on.

I NEVER drink my tank water, use bottled and for coffee tea etc. I do wash and wash up with tank water.

I carry spray disinfectant and disconnect any hose that I (rarely) see and spray up the tap and all over, leave for a min or so then run the tap. I connect my hose or use my watering can and fill.

I leave a hygiene gap when filling my cassette to rinse out as well.

 

[Happy1]

2x 23 l water containers with a hose attached to a pump whale tap and fill with 5 l bottled water from supermarket. Had separate inline taps to turn one off so always one in reserve. Fill at home before setting off from the tap 40l lasts a while.

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[DavidG58]

I have very rarely come across a fixed hose, apart from on a site, but if ever I did I would remove it and fit my own

We also only ever drink or cook with bottled water, although if confident in the site supply we would refill bottles directly from a tap

The scary bit of course its OK if you see the abuse most would not and use unknowingly, although that maybe confirms the actual risk to health is quite small

But we will still not be drinking it

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Best to also wipe the tap with a disinfectant wipe. Even for filling the main tank.

 

[49780]

At La Source site at Dieppe May 2018 the scruffy odd job/maintenance guy who lived in a grubby static was rinsing out his cassette in a washing up sink. There was a dedicated drain and hose 10yds away. I remonstrated with him (in good French) but he ignored me. He was later cooking and selling frites from a shed on the site. Yuk!
It now has a lovely young couple as new owners and has been considerable improved. The site has been landscaped, old statics have been replaced with stylish chalets and he's no longer there.
I always use Aquaclean tabs every third fill and have a 5L 'day container' for drinking water.

He was demonstrating a taste of France perhaps?

 

[Poutie57]

I was looking at buying the Dextra silvernet has anyone used it

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[Madcaravanner]

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Yep we use those too but where we can we remove any hose on the Bourne and stick our hoses on the taps because we too observed someone using the fresh water to clean out their cassette because the waste clean tap was broken ( Portiragne Plage Aire )

Although there was also a fresh drinking water tap actually on the aire - -the bourne is 300m down the road where the OLD aire WAS - -- there is no need to worry

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