Travels with my water filter - the Corin family

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Q. How are you finding the WFA RV water filters?

Douglas – I think everything tastes better with filtered water, even the water itself. I admit, since installing the filter, I have rarely tasted the unfiltered water.

We definitely use the filtered water for cooking too. The other day, Jack used it even to make raspberry jelly which tasted delicious. We had homemade sushi the other night too, with various fillings placed onto the rice and wrapped in nori seaweed. Satomi makes great sushi, and the sushi rice tasted perfect after having been washed and cooked in the filtered water.

Douglas – The filtered water is pure colourless water just as you would hope. As I said, I tend not to drink unfiltered water anymore, so can’t comment about the comparison. Out of all the family members, I’m the one whose stomach is the most liable to be upset by foul water, which is why I’m so grateful for having the filters.

Satomi – I haven’t drunk normal water from the tap because I trust our filtered tap water. Always refill my own water bottles from our tap and drinks.

Tony – Some of the regular water makes you want to question its hygiene. But with the filtered water, I can be certain, it is properly filtered. For example, we have two taps that are filtered, the cold water tap and the mixed tap. I drink from the cold water tap, because I know it is completely filtered and safe. The filter achieves a higher level of consistency with the different water types. Before we got the filters, I remember that some of our family members, particularly Mum and Tim, wouldn’t drink the water from some caravan parks. The taste of many of them in Queensland were borish and sour.  The filter allows us to drink confidently and safely.

Jack – I have noticed a difference, when we didn’t have the filters and I drank from the unfiltered tap it left a weird taste in my mouth. But now when I drink from the tap it tastes more fresh. The rice tastes better now!

Douglas – There are some variations often within each state itself. No surprise since Australia is so huge. Up through the centre of the country and around the northwest coast of WA, there was a mineral smell to some of the water in a few places. Water quantity availability has been a variation too, meaning it has been difficult in some areas to refill our caravan water tanks because of local water restrictions. We have had to restrict our water use. That has been educational for us all.

Satomi –  It’s noticeable water tastes different by areas. Especially through room temperature water filled in own bottles.

Tim –  It’s hard to say. The water in some towns definitely tastes treated with chlorine or something similar, but generally there isn’t much difference.

Tony –  I think that NSW water was the best overall. WA isn’t so bad, but we stayed at a Lake recently, and the ‘safe to drink’ water was a light green-brown. I wouldn’t drink that.

Jack – Yes, some caravan parks have different tastes of water but they are all pretty good. One caravan park that I can not recall where I drank water from made me feel a bit dizzy.

Douglas – It would be pretty difficult to have stayed in remote areas away from towns as we have, without an on-tap access to filtered water. Although we did carry extra 10 litre boxes of water up the centre of the country, from Port Augusta to Darwin, we refilled those boxes from our caravan filtered water until we were back into areas with more constant access to plentiful water.

Satomi – It’s great to have a good amount of trustworthy water coming from tap. It makes me feel it’s safer for cooking and for washing veggies for salad.

Tony – Convenience wise, being able to refill, my bottle is so much better than buying bottles every now and then. Some of the water before would be so horrible, my mouth would sour and it would be hard to drink it. And because the water comes from the tank, after a hike I can top up my bottle before going out again without having to buy another bottle and carry extra weight.

Jack – Boxes of water add weight to the caravan and we don’t need to move the big boxes of water every time we stop for lunch, morning tea, and dinner. It’s easier with filtered water.

Douglas – Heaps saved for me personally. Bottled water from the shops has an unpleasant taste for me. So I would tend to spend more for the better brands. At $2-3 or more for a 750ml bottle, the expense would be most significant.