reverse osmosis

billy botswana · Member

reverse osmosis

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Reverse osmosis is very effective, but tends to be relatively slow and very power hungry for use in RVs. Often used cruise boats.
We have good filtration (5um sediment filter followed by 0.5um carbon/silver) that is installed just before the taps in the camper. This combined with effective chlorination will turn almost any water into safe drinkable water.

Because of the sheer volume of containments it is best to avoid cloudy water as it will block the fine filters quickly. If you have no alternative cloudy water can be batch treated (by the bucket full) with small amounts of alum which will settle out the colloidal clay that makes the water cloudy. It can then be chlorinated and filtered.
We carry alum, but have never needed to use it.
Cheers,
Peter

Jaahn · Guru

Hi smile

I offer an alternative that people might find useful. Life straw. They are available in camping shops and on line, developed for third world countries to provide safe drinking water. Various sizes made.

https://www.lifestraw.com/

Jaahn

Whenarewethere · Guru

At home we use a Stiebel Eltron 4 stage water filter.

Radar · Guru

Jaahn wrote:
Hi
I offer an alternative that people might find useful. Life straw. They are available in camping shops and on line, developed for third world countries to provide safe drinking water. Various sizes made.
https://www.lifestraw.com/
Jaahn

Hi Jaahn

I would of liked to of known about this Jug last month, we brought another brand and we need to change the filter every 2 months.

Thank you, interesting jug, information stored for next time.

Bagmaker · Senior Member

Yes you can, the amount of water used and the power usage is a bit prohibitive. if you have lots of solar and a river, then its possible. So is UV type sterilization.
Consider the amount of floating particulates in the water, normal filtration to get the water to a stage ready for either UV or RO is your primaty issue.
What will work well in the upper Murray will never work in the reaches downstream of Albury, for example, as there is so much fine stuff in it.

Go for it and keep us informed!

billy botswana · Member

Thank for your thoughts, gives me a few options