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This is no help but ai wanted to add

When me and bud used to go catfishing all night and camping for one night/day out.

We would take a 5 gallon Igloo water cooler (like the bleck boys have to have at football practice)

Fill it full of the hottest damn tap water. Use it for hot hand washing. Nice to have clean hands when messing with slimey bottom feeders or handling stinky shad guts, worm shît, or liver blood.

How long are you folks going boondocking and how much water a day do you use?

Showers? Hair washing? Shaving?

Couple of 5 gallon jugs will get me through more than a week, but maybe 20-30 miles from the nearest paved road really isn't boondocking?:

That's most often the case with me as well, I'll boondock 3 or 4 months of the year but I move around.

Fresh water capacity vs holding tanks vs fresh produce and meats I keep in the RV and camping day limits all kinda work in harmony.

But even at that, there are plenty of areas where RV specific dump stations are rare. That's why I bought the pump.

We were having problems with the capacity of our gray water tank. I did some measuring and found a 14gal holding tank that I could fit underneath to let the water back up into it. Of course I needed an air vent to prevent an air lock. That extra 14 gal has worked great. We haven't filled it yet.

$2200 for that? I agree, make your own. The total of the parts will be a fraction of that price. They're charging a lot for the convenience.

I can do a month pretty easy without moving the motorhome if I can make fresh food runs on my motorcycle.

I gotta conserve water though. I only hold 45 gallons of fresh.
A few cases of bottled water for cooking and drinking helps.

But it's those showers and dishwashing that burn through the volume.

I've owned one of these for years and use it often.



ZODI Instant Hotwater Heater

A bucket of water from a nearby lake or river works for a shower and even dishwashing.
That both saves my freshwater supply and keeps from filling my holding tank.

I'd rather conserve than haul more.

I like that shower set up. I may have to look into one if I ever get back to longer trips.

The camp I had set up was about 50 miles from where my bro lives and after a week or so I could go in and shower if it wasn't warm enough for a sponge bath.

I eat simply so washing dishes is like we did in the Scouts on desert trips. Very little water used.

Wife is no longer into camping rough, and we don't have a trailer and vehicle big enough to pull it, or a motorhome so I don't worry about little things like showering every day when hunting.

We have been camping for 14 days, twice a year, in the desert the last 3 years. We do a couple 7-10 day trips and some weekends throughout the year as well.

The trailer has two 44 gal freshwater tanks, a 6 gal water heater, and we bring 24 gallons of drinking water in 4 gal jugs. With 2 teenage daughters and the ol 'lady, that is enough for the 14 day camp limit on the public land we like to camp on. We have refilled a couple jugs of drinking water when needed, but we leave camp every couple days to float or bike anyway.

Quick, hot outdoor showers every couple days, an inside one every now and then if the weather is rough. Have not run out of tank space or fresh water yet, but we do get reallly close, lol.

Two teenage girls and a wife kind of explains your situation.

I resemble that remark +1.

Bingo

Am I the only guy left that'll still sheit in the woods?

See picture above of minimalist camp.

Do you see a porta-potty even?

Sometimes , especially if I'm moving around some while trying to locate game, I just sleep in the front seat.

I usually have one of these in the truck or Razor. It's more sturdy than most of the portable seats.

It is a Forest River Stealth 2916G. When my unit was ordered it was upgraded to 160 gal. fresh, solar, and a few other upgrades.

Pack out of all waste required on most arid BLM lands.

here in Florida, and up in Georgia, I only carry a few gallons of water. I use a hand pump Katadyn filter if I need more. There is no shortage of water here. Creeks and lakes, rivers and springs everywhere. Only car camping with a tent. Never had a desire for a camper.

Roughly like below. We hold 85 gallons of drinking quality water and 25 gallons of grey which we fill before setting out. My wife and I have spent 3 weeks at the foot of a mountain and not had to refill. With 2 boys added we use more but nothing extravagant. As you imply, managing water is a good skill to develop over just hauling more in.

Wow, that looks like a cool rig, got any more pics?