Water Supply

Yesterday was time for our weekly bathing....
Okay, just kidding, we do bathe more often than once a week.  Anyways, boon-docking and not moving the rig, requires a bit of work to be done.  Meaning-since you don't move your rig to get water, you have to bring water to your rig.  Here is how we do it:

Some folks uses varies sizes and types of barrels, water jugs, and water bladders to haul water back to their rigs.  We choose to use 7 gallon water jugs to haul water back into our rig.  We find this is more convenient and easy for us.

We just can't "poor" the water in like some RV'ers, our water system is pressurized.  We also have to use a water pump to get the water to flow into our tank.

So before we are ready to get showers or if we need extra water put into our holding tank here is what we have to do:
 Brian first has to hook the first hose from the jug to the water pump and open the valve.  the second hose also hooks from the out on the pump and then into to the RV water fill connector.

Then when he is already, he just simply plugs the electrical connection to the cigarette plug in the car.

Now he has to watch it carefully as to not to run dry.  If the jug gets low he always makes sure that he has another 7 gallon ready to go and usually poors it in the one jug while the pump is running.  (as you see him doing in the upper picture).

Now we learned a great little secret.  One day he had an extra 7 gal of water and couldn't put anymore into our RV.  So he left the hook-up to the 7 gallons.  He thought that would be plenty of water for me to shower.  We discovered that we don't get the "surging" that you get from you in-house water pump, the temp is more stable, so no quick hot or cold water while showering.  AND we both can shower with 7 gallons of water!  So now when it's time to get rid of the stink on our bodies, Brian hooks the water pump up to the 7 gallon jug and we are all set to go.

Brian also forgot one time to open the valve on the jug.  We were lucky not to burn up the water pump.  By the time I got out, and he got in, he told me that he might have forgotten the valve.  I went out to check and sure enough the jug was almost sucked inwards!  No damage that time, so he's more cautious now.

So now if you are ever boon-docking, this will help you to bring in fresh water into your tank without having to move your RV!