Both the MOD, and Scepter can adjust the water flow with their vent caps, for smooth water streams. The Scepter is great, in that you can easily drop a electric pump into it. For ease of cleaning, the Scepter wins hands down, with it's extra large opening. I have a Hozelock Porta Shower,and will attempt to adapt the pump, and pick up tube, into the Scepter, to keep all the containers the same size. I think at the hardware store, I should be to able to create the adapter from various fittings, and with an extension for the water pick up, to have pressurized water at hand . After looking at heat exchangers, there are way too many connections that may potentially leak, for my liking. It is easy enough to heat some water after cooking to add into the jerry for a warm shower, instead of starting the vehicle every time, to have warm water. I just don't want, or need the complexity, accompanying weight gain, and potential system failure, when a simple solution will work fine. But that's just me.

any body got any good reconmendations where i can buy a scepter water jerry can from,preferable a new or aleast un-issued one, not necessary taking about the cheapest. It seems the only official stockist for europe is in ireland???





cheers kevin

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I think the large fitted tank's are ok for motorhomes and caravans but for smaller vehicles I would always use 3 or 4 smaller type containers holding no more that 10 or 20 litres and 1 or 1.5 litre bottles as they cam be spread around the vehicle to help with weight distribution.

Bearing in mind a litre of water weighs 1 kilo a large tank holding over 50 kilo's is a large chunk of weight to concentrate in 1 spot.
The 1 or 1.5 litre bottles are always good for a drink on the move and will wedge in the door pocket of most vehicles.

On the filling side I have a lifesaver filtered pump which is a bit of a pain to use but you can extract and purify water from streams etc although it takes an age to fill a 1 litre bottle but as I don't venture of piste much bottled water is available at most garages supermarkets etc and I top up when buying fuel or food etc.
For showers I have 2 hi-gear black bag type showers which I leave on the roof during the day and shower early evening if I'm not on a campsite.

Works for me and there's not much that can go wrong with plastic bottles and bags except punctures I suppose.

Hiya!

We have opted for a tall thin water tank that fits along the load guard. I believe it holds 50L.



It is on order at the moment, and we hope to receive it by Easter.

As for filling it, our plan is to use a length of hose into the top (see the black cap), with a funnel at the tap end to 'catch' the water. This should remove the problem of an exact fit for the hose to the tap.

From previous experience, we have found having a 10l plastic container very useful at the kitchen end of the vehicle (ie. the back). Weight wise, easy for even little 'ol me to handle, and can also be used to fill the big tank if we can't get the vehicle close to the tap.

We'll let you know how this pans out!

rgds
African GirlChild

I also like the idea of a flat one laying flat in the load bay

TJ

Weight only becomes an issue when things are going correctly, but get stuck in an obscure area in many parts of the world and having this water literally becomes a lifesaver in soaring temperatures, and when another vehicle may pass every few days.

Many have fallen foul of not carrying enough water and suffered dehydration, many have died.

Base water consumption on an average 6 litres per person, per day, a 30 litre capacity is less than 3 days water for a couple travelling alone.

Hi there,
got to agree with Assassin here, we carry 120lts of drinking water in our 110. Its heavy of course but with 3 of us in the Landy and drinking water not being available everywhere our well being is paramount. In a few spots we've ran out of food before water.

We have 40lts in a stainless steel under wing tank with an external tap, 60lts in an internal plastic tank behind our storage drawer and 20lts in a scepter style jerry can which lives in one of the external side lockers.

All of them can be filled quickly using a hose pipe if a tap is close by or slowly using the jerry can if the water source is too far away.

All of the weight is low down, the water is always in the same place and easy to get to.

Its worked for us touring Australia anyway!

Andy

In some parts of Oz it can be a couple of weeks before another vehicle passes AndyK, so you tend to think more of its importance than many of us in the UK.

Aaah - I feel slightly reassured that we opted for a 50l tank! I initially thought it was overkill, but any anymore!

Just because you have the capacity it dosen't mean you have to use it all, many friends owning motorhomes had similar issues with having what they deemed as excessively large tanks fitted, I simply said only partially fill them with enough water for your journey, then fill them up when you are on site as they all have water these days.

About 150 ltres of water onboard with full tank.

So with that and full diesel tanks i'm carrying best part of half a tonne of liquid

I also have a couple of water jerries as just in case supply

Get the saucepans, bowls, and buckets out while its raining folks and catch it now while you can.

Its always advisable to carry more than one container, if one becomed contaminated, burst or damaged you have water to fall back on. Worst ones are freezing of an external tank while an inside one's fine.

Quite, this is a classic case of not putting all your eggs into one basket. The same is true of fuel to a degree, but of course unless you get water ingress, fuel rarely becomes contaminated - and even if it did, it wouldn't affect your health. More tanks the better as opposed to just one or even two big 'uns.