Water! We gotta have it! And as van lifer, you
have to figure out how you're going to carry
it. From refilling one-gallon jugs with the
advanced move at filtering it through a Berkey
to a 40-gallon tank installed in the back, this
video highlights eight different solutions
to the water issue so you can find a solution
that will work for you.
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I have my water filter on the front seat and water
storage on the floor. I have the gallons of water
on the floor and the front.
Have a little sink. This is the five gallon bucket
and pour water in it, from one gallon jugs and
it's just gravity fed, you turn it on, out it
goes and then they just have a PVC pipe. They
just go straight down to the ground.
Here's my sink setup and this is just a hand pump
that goes into a 5-gallon water jug. It's the
best thing ever. Just pump and goes into the sink here.
My sink is just this; it doesn't even have a drain.
I just pull it out manually, dump it. Whenever
when I have to refill the water jug, this
comes up like that and hooks onto this little
wooden hook, which also serves as my towel rack.
Holds like that. And then I just pull the water jug out.
And a lot of Walmarts or Safeways or other grocery
stores have the water refill stations outside
of the store. So, as long as I park right next
to that water station, it's really easy to refill.
I got this teeny tiny sink. It's like a bar sink,
and it's teeny, tiny, and I decided to go with
a hand pump because I had an electric pump in
my last van and I didn't really find it was
useful for me. And then I have Aqua-tainers
underneath here. So one for freshwater and
then one for gray water.
So I have a little foot pump sink and I have five
gallons of fresh and five gallons of greywater
underneath just in a jug that's really easy to remove.
We travel with 20 gallons of water. This is only
14 gallons and then we have a 6 gallon water tank
in the trunk that we like dumped into it
and then the water is hooked up to a foot pump.
So and we love this so much that we recently bought
property and install the foot pump into our
kitchen because you're just like super conscious
of how much water you're using and and hands-free.
So you can just like pop wash your hands do the dishes.
My water system, I had fully removable water
tanks installed. I wanted to be able to take
them out so that it would be easier for me if I
if I needed to just take it to a hose and fill it up.
And then also dumping it is a lot easier as well.
I don't have to go to like a an RV dump place to dump it.
In the kitchen, we have a regular residential bar sink.
I also have a faucet from Costco. That's a, I
think it's a Hansgrohe. One of the nice things
about it is that I can pull this out and fill my
water filter, which is right next to it. So,
I can fill it directly without having to move
the water filter. Got a 40 gallon water tank.
My water heater and my water pump are both back here.
I have a 4 gallon water heater, that's electric.
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their vans, so you can learn and come up with
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