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    Posted: 30 Jul 2014 at 10:26pm
What do you guys think about getting a water pump and a filter and pump water from rivers or lakes into the freshwater tank? Does anyone do this? Which pump / filter would you recommend and are there any rules that I should know?
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Posts: 387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jul 2014 at 11:34pm
Ever had beaver fever ????? If you have you wouldn't use water from a lake or river!!!!!!

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Posts: 34 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 1:16am
No, I haven't. But to avoid health issues, I was thinking of a filter as I mentioned. 

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I use the water filter already at home and in the office. It makes a tastable difference as it removes most of the chlorine. I haven't researched giardia organisms yet but will ask the filter company what they think about it.
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inge:  i can only assume this is possible if you can find the right filter for that quantity of water.  I have drank gallons of lake/river/stream water over the years that i ran through my backpacking filter.  never once did i get ill.  ill check tonight what brand i have, i dont recall off the top of my head.  i think it is made in sweden.  the filter i have runs through a carbon and ceramic filter. hogone
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inge:  its made by katadyn.  #1 rated filter.  maybe check there website, they may be strictly backpacking filters/pumps.  hogone
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Posts: 4508 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 7:26am
It is not really safe filter or not, if you boiled it first maybe. But beaver fever is not pleasant!!
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actually it's a very safe filtering system.  granted nothing is 100% safe, not the water from your home, not the water from campground hook-ups, etc.  just giving inge some ideas to pursue which may be an option if he wishes to pursue.  hogone
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Posts: 438 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2014 at 8:54am
There are some very good filtering systems out there for backpacking etc.
However getting the quantities needed to fill a 30+ gallon tank would be an issue and not really practical.  For example the best filter in Inge's link would take over an hour to fill the tank and it isn't even designed for really nasty water!
IF I had to depend on lake/river water I'd not drink out of the rpod system, just fill it with particulate filtered water and use for flushing and showers.
I'd keep my drinking water separate and run through a very good drinking water filtration system and perhaps still chemically treat it...
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Good luck trying to sell the camper ever after you mention you put river water in the tank and plumbing system. The only filter system engineered to do this and fill the tank quickly is over $40k and fits on a pallet. I'm a plumber and have installed two in off grid homes. It would be best to not use that water with a camper and stick to using it in a backpacking filter bottle scenario.
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inge:  $40,000 isn't badOuch  hogone
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