Drinking Water Poll

[TiggerToo]

Mine says it on the tube, did you actually look?

you are right, it says "minimize swallowing, and spit out". I take from that it may not be a good idea to go on a diet of toothpaste. The dentist said: do not rinse.

 

[TiggerToo]

Agreed. We often use bottled water but we have a carbon filter on the galley tap and sometimes use that water for drinking.

I'd be worried about the microbial flora growing on carbon filters left untreated in a boat's plumbing.

They may be good at removing the trace chlorine and other disinfectant chemicals that give a bad taste to water, but they could very easily be a good substrate for bacteria and yeasts to thrive.

 

[dgadee]

I'd be worried about the microbial flora growing on carbon filters left untreated in a boat's plumbing.

They may be good at removing the trace chlorine and other disinfectant chemicals that give a bad taste to water, but they could very easily be a good substrate for bacteria and yeasts to thrive.

I flush the system out before use. I hope that gets rid of things. Never had a gut problem. Some have silver which is supposed to reduce growths.

No longer have a watermaker but never left product water in tanks. Always filled with tap water when we left the boat.

Edit: I asked the filter manufacturer how long the carbon block filter would last. 'A long time' at our rate of use, he said. It was him who said not to leave product water in the tank. Usually change the filter once a year.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I'd be worried about the microbial flora growing on carbon filters left untreated in a boat's plumbing.

They may be good at removing the trace chlorine and other disinfectant chemicals that give a bad taste to water, but they could very easily be a good substrate for bacteria and yeasts to thrive.

When we return to the boat after it’s been laid up for any length of time, I replace the filter. We don’t normally have a problem.

However I admit we have had bugs growing in the tank now the boats in the tropics. A flush with bleach sorted that out although I was a bit heavy handed and compromised the insulation in the immersion heater in the Calorifier! A lesson learned.

 

[alahol2]

When people flush the tank several times do they use the normal galley pump? It takes ages on our boat just to empty the tank once... And we've only got 90 litres.

 

[dgadee]

When people flush the tank several times do they use the normal galley pump? It takes ages on our boat just to empty the tank once... And we've only got 90 litres.

Yes. Simplest if slowest.

 

[Poignard]

When people flush the tank several times do they use the normal galley pump? It takes ages on our boat just to empty the tank once... And we've only got 90 litres.

If you're ashore you can siphon it out

 

[BCsailor]

Poll missing obvious choice: ship's tank (not filtered, etc). Hence I chose "other".

 

[geem]

Tank water for everything. Now we are are back onboard full-time, the watermaker produces all our water needs. All powered by solar.
No plastic bottles to lug about. No plastic waste

 

[dgadee]

Tank water for everything. Now we are are back onboard full-time, the watermaker produces all our water needs. All powered by solar.
No plastic bottles to lug about. No plastic waste

Yes, best way. Lugging the crew's bottled water to boat was always pointless, I thought.

 

[johnyki]

What's the most popular choice of DRINKING Water aboard.

The most popular choice of drinking water aboard ships (especially cargo and navy vessels) is Reverse Osmosis (RO) purified water—because it’s reliable, safe, and produced directly from seawater onboard. Bottled water is used only as backup.

 

[dgadee]

We had RO in the Med. Crew continued to drink out of a plastic bottle (with all those micro fragments in it).

 

[oldgit]

Despite drinking water from a plastic container for 20 years and then drinking water from various unfiltered galvanised tanks for the next 20 and then another 20 from stainless tanks with the filter that might have been changed (Ow much )a decade ago.............
Hang on that could account for......................