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solentviews

I fitted a Nature Pure filter but for a different reason. We have always used the on board tank throughout our travels both home and abroad. My 7 year old largely drinks only water and at times has to run just used hot water off to get cold to drink. Fitting the filter and tap allows him a constant supply of cold water and reduces the topping up I have to do. Since fitting we use the filtered water to top up the kettle and for cooking.
Ian

Tribute_650

Thanks everyone for your responses, The Nature Pure filter system seems the answer but I cannot understand why we have to pay £45 for a replacement cartridge in the UK but the Yanks only pay around £9, it puts me off, would be different if they paid £45 hence indicating that that was the actual value of the cartridge and we were not lining the pockets of the importer!

johnandcharlie

I'm sure it's a poor substitute, but I've just found my Brita filter jug in my house clearout. Would this be any use, or would it not remove all the important nasties?

Seeker

I did a couple of years volunteering in an African village some 25 years ago. While there I built a water filtration system as described in a Peace Corps manual: Get a couple of old oil drums to stand on top of each other and put a tap in the side of the lower one a couple of inches up from the bottom. Punch holes in the bottom of the upper and and then fill it with layers of stones, gradually getting smaller toward the middle, then a good layer of sand. Then a layer of topsoil with grass.

I tested it by pouring in five gallons of muddy water taken from a nearby cattle waterhole and left it overnight to drain through into the lower drum. Next morning it came out of the tap sparkling clear and I had a good swig to prove it had worked in nature's own way.

I spent the next three weeks on anti-biotics with stomach cramps and diarhoea.

Nowadays we drink only bottled water on the van.

Harry