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Has anyone installed an inline water filter?

Joan
SW FL
'97 EVC

hi Joan,
while not as convenient as in-line, we have a 16 oz brita h2o filter that
works quickly (enough) and stores easily.
Bill Segesser
95 evc

Joan,

You may also want to check out bottle filters 30-50$(a water bottle with
built in filter). Look for a filter pore size less than 0.2 microns. One
micron filters will remove protozoans like giardia and Cryptosporidium.

www.exstreamwater.com
www.safewateranywhere.com

Blaine

Thanks for the replies. This water filtering thing is something that I've
been thinking about for a while. I drink a lot of water while I'm traveling
and find that as long as I have decent water in the car, I'll drink it. If I
don't, I drink Cokes. Blah.

Bill, I checked the Brita site and it looks like the pitcher method doesn't
filter Giardia. That's probably my biggest concern. I've had it and it's
like the nastiest thing imaginable. Am I interpreting the info incorrectly?

I do carry bottled water to drink, but if there was a way to get around that
and not have to carry the bulk, it'd be great.

Joan
SW FL
'97 EVC

hi Joan,
Getting rid of Giardia is a much different aspect of water filtering.
Sorry, I didn't realize you were looking to purify the water. You are
correct, Britas don't do that.

A company out here called Cascade Designs makes a portable purifier, I think
<$100. (www.cascadedesigns.com). that should do pretty well for traveling,
as it's a backpacker ready design. a little slow, but gets rid of the
beast.

good luck
Bill Segesser

Joan:

I'll assume that because water takes up no more physical space then
coke and is just as well distributed in North America that you do not
wish to purchase beverages of any sort on the road in so much as you can
avoid it and would rather treat water from a public source as needed.

Giardia is a rather large cyst organism which is most easily removed
by filtration. Any good portable filtration devices sold should work.
Cryptosporidium on the other hand is extremely small, less than .45
microns which happened to be the beverage industries standard before all
those people in the Milwaukee got sick ( yes, some died as well) from
it. You would need a very good porable treatment device with some other
method besides filtration of killing microorganisms to be effective at
removing the threat of being infected by Cryptosporidium which is an
even more painful and long lived experience then Giardiasis, dare I say
it. The only good thing about Cryptosporidium is that it is quite rare
to find it in a water supply.

Then of course you have VOCs, SVOCs, heavy metals, nitrates and so on,
all of which cause long term illnesses rather then sudden ones. I'm not
trying to scare you away from treating your own drinking water, I think
that's a reasonable approach. I'm just saying be careful, get the best
treatment system you can afford and maintain it often.

Truly
EAB
99 EVC



J Henley wrote:

I have used a number of Doulton filters in a solar/battery powered water
filtration system we use on extended river trips. Never had a problem
with giardia. Doulton also produces gravity filters as well as in-line
filters. Their gravity filters might work well for people in an EVC. I
think the www.cascadedesigns.com filters are interesting, but a bit
expensive. They have a gravity filter as well.

If someone was interested in an in-line ceramic filter, the EVC water
pump would need to be upgraded to something more powerful. You would
need a pump that delivers 45 psi. Not sure if the rest of the EVC
plumbing would be able to handle that much pressure, but it would be
easy to fix. If I wanted to filter water from my EVC water tank, I
would use a Doulton ceramic filter and would upgrade the pump.

Here are the Doulton folks. They are quite helpful and could probably
get you started.

Here is where you can get information on pumps.
. I have used their 8000 series 12 volt pumps.


Good luck.

I too had an unpleasant bout with Giardiasis, however,
I got it from drinking untreated stream water in Los
Padres Natl Forest.

It is my understanding that any water that comes out
of a drinking water faucet in the US or Canada has
been treated and will not make you sick.

Did your experience come from drinking water provided
by a municipal water supply? If so where?

Also, you can buy the bottled water in 2.5 gal
containers and put it into your EVC holding tank, that
way you don't have to use up additional storage space
for the bottled water.

--- J Henley <soreal@...> wrote:

Thanks for the replies. This water filtering thing
is something that I've
been thinking about for a while. I drink a lot of
water while I'm traveling
and find that as long as I have decent water in the
car, I'll drink it. If I
don't, I drink Cokes. Blah.

Bill, I checked the Brita site and it looks like the
pitcher method doesn't
filter Giardia. That's probably my biggest concern.
I've had it and it's
like the nastiest thing imaginable. Am I
interpreting the info incorrectly?

I do carry bottled water to drink, but if there was
a way to get around that
and not have to carry the bulk, it'd be great.

Joan
SW FL
'97 EVC

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I too had an unpleasant bout with Giardiasis, however,
I got it from drinking untreated stream water in Los
Padres Natl Forest.

It is my understanding that any water that comes out
of a drinking water faucet in the US or Canada has
been treated and will not make you sick.

Did your experience come from drinking water provided
by a municipal water supply? If so where?

In western Canada at least, some of the small towns (in the Kootenays) get glacier-fed water.
They then tell you that you shouldn't drink it, even though everyone in town does.
they're just trying to cover their arse I guess.
We were traveling up there while my wife was pregnant, she freaked out and wouldn't drink
anything but bottled/boiled.
Wonderful area for camping around though.