We can stock enough food for six weeks, or more. We can fill our propane canisters and, unless we use the furnace a lot, get five weeks plus out of them. But water is a different story. We have 36 gallons in the camper's tank. Using two gallons a day (almost all for drinking), it is clear that water is our limiting factor.
So we supplement the water tank with some water bottles. That gets us about eight more gallons.
What about water for washing and bathing? We have a couple of solar power bags that can give us another 10 gallons for washing, but that supply can be exhausted rather rapidly if the weather is hot.
Our cleverness, however, knows no bounds. We wait until it rains and collect rain water from the gutters on the camper:
Then we pour it into our solar powered heating bags:
On the first warm day, the sun heats the water to about 94 degrees, and we wash either ourselves or our clothes.
No water bill. No electrical bill.
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