Having read the OP I'm left wondering how one person uses approx 100 litres of water a week when it is supplemented by 'natural' water supplies for ''non-potable use. We have 220 litres in two tanks for two of us & regularly manage 3 weeks on that (& can stretch it to 4 weeks if we know we going to need to). That's a massive difference of potable water use. Approx 100 litres per person per week vs approx 37 litres per person per week.

The Boss and I get, at best, about 6 days from 240L when bush camping. That's about 20 L a day each. Includes drinking, shower every day, washing dishes etc.
Washing clothes happens at CVPs.

Perhaps the OP likes long showers & uses his washing machine with a genni.

It is dangerous to drink too much water. Human red blood cells are round & will only expand a limited amount before damage. Whereas a camel's red blood cells are oval & will expand a lot more.

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Having read the OP I'm left wondering how one person uses approx 100 litres of water a week when it is supplemented by 'natural' water supplies for ''non-potable use. We have 220 litres in two tanks for two of us & regularly manage 3 weeks on that (& can stretch it to 4 weeks if we know we going to need to). That's a massive difference of potable water use. Approx 100 litres per person per week vs approx 37 litres per person per week.

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I drink a lot.

I don't use all 200L, I don't know how much I use over 14 days but as I need to go into town for food etc then I may as well get potable water too, would you not agree?

No doubt were I and my caravan lost in the desert in January I could make 200L last an awfully long time but I'm not and I don't want to.

This is my home and as a nomad is the way I live but I wish to be comfortable and relaxed and not stressing about every drop of water or watt of electricity or putting on two jumpers when it's cold. This is my life, it is not an endurance test.

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 Of course I would agree. 'Top up whenever you have the opportunity & the water is good' is what we do. Our default style is 'water conservation mode' whenever we don't know where the next water is coming from, which tends to be whenever we are on the move, as our preference is for remote areas. It's our life too. And truthfully it has never felt like an endurance test. (Apart from the two week exception when at Walcott inlet at the end of the Munja track - having taken less than full tanks to keep weight down & all non potable water was muddy salt water lifted with rope & bucket  from the hugely tidal creek - to avoid being  croc tucker - letting it stand to settle & scooping the clear water off the top to wash ourselves & dishes.  Whilst the hot showers we had once back to relative civilisation (Mt Elizabeth Station, off the Gibb River Road)  were especially welcome, the 'endurance' aspect of our experience there paled against all the other aspects which made it the best thing we've ever done travelling-wise. 

I'd suggest going into town more frequently with ordinary plastic water containers.
It appears that we camp in similar locations to you, its not as though you're camping in the middle of the Simpson Desert, there's an IGA supermarket/bottle shop & a tap at a sporting complex just down the road at the nearest small town.
The figures that you quoted in your OP seem excessive, there are two of us & we use half the water that you do.
Camping near lakes & rivers makes things even easier because you only need to find drinking water.
We love the feeling of isolation very much like you & it's so easy to achieve in rural regions of Victoria where the locations aren't postedon Wikicamps.
Enjoy your solitude.