| Pages:
1
2 |
juandesiles
Newbie
Posts: 24
Registered: 6-16-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
Off grid water
Hi,
we are going of grid for a month, around Punta San Carlos, 3hrs drive from El Rosario in North Baja.
how meny gallons of water do i need for 2 persons a week?
thanx
|
|
|
Howard
Super Nomad
Posts: 2353
Registered: 11-13-2007
Location: Loreto/Manhattan Beach/Kona
Member Is Offline
Mood: I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
|
|
Assuming you are going in the Winter months I would figure 1 gallon per day for 2 people for personal drinking. It will vary depending on your
activity level.
Then you have showers and doing dishes, say at least another gallon per person per day.
Can you use paper plates and paper/plastic cups, forks and knifes? (To you tree huggers, my apologies)
Add more water to the list for coffee and if you cook or bringing a pet.
[Edited on 11-18-2015 by Howard]
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
depends how thirsty you get.
|
|
|
mtgoat666
Select Nomad
Posts: 18365
Registered: 9-16-2006
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Hot n spicy
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by juandesiles  | Hi,
we are going of grid for a month, around Punta San Carlos, 3hrs drive from El Rosario in North Baja.
how meny gallons of water do i need for 2 persons a week?
thanx
|
It really depends on how you camp. Bathe and wash dishes with salt water and you just need drinking/cooking water.
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
Prell shampoo lathers in ocean water. rinse with fresh or not. Goat won't approve since it's not green, but he smells funny anyway so don't pay him no
attention!
|
|
|
mojo_norte
Senior Nomad
Posts: 725
Registered: 2-14-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
we'd go through 35 gallons - 2 people - 3 weeks - so bout 1 gallon per person per day - drinking and cooking only - if it it rains and chances are it
probably will this time of year rig up a tarp to collect rain water
|
|
|
juandesiles
Newbie
Posts: 24
Registered: 6-16-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
First we will go on fevruary march april.
there is going to be a lot of biking and surfing.
i have a 30galons om my trailer
and i was thinking to bring 50 moore.
hoping to do 3 weeks whit out going back to get more!!
juan
|
|
|
Hook
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9009
Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
Member Is Offline
Mood: Inquisitive
|
|
I think you can make that work but consider getting two, 3 gallon solar showers. You can probably EACH get two latherings total (or four latherings)
from one-3 gallon solar shower filled with ocean water. But you will probably only get 2-3 fresh water rinses, total. I cant stand rinsing in salt
water.
With a solar shower, you can visually see how much you are using, unlike a trailer shower.
But maybe you can train yourself you use about 1 gallon per rinse from your trailer. It can be hard to tell.
Other tips: bring body powder, like J and J or Shower to Shower to extend shower days out to 3 days or more. I can go a while without showering my
body, IF I have body powder. But I really have to shampoo every 3-4 days (I have long hair, so I gets dirty faster). The powder keeps the odor down,
absorbs some perspiration and keeps your skin "feeling" smooth (especially around armpits and crotch region) instead of that clammy feeling from dried
sweat.
Avoid wearing hats if possible. They trap head moisture and oil and that attracts more dirt.
Also, make friends with neighbors and let them know to give you any excess water if they are heading back home.
[Edited on 11-19-2015 by Hook]
|
|
|
AKgringo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6025
Registered: 9-20-2014
Location: Anchorage, AK (no mas!)
Member Is Offline
Mood: Retireded
|
|
Sombrero = Shade
I agree with Lencho, particularly if you have thinning hair, and a family history of skin cancer.
Another water saving tip; Get used to doing shots, as use of your solar powered ice maker, and blender will stress your water supply!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
|
|
|
Udo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6346
Registered: 4-26-2008
Location: Black Hills, SD/Ensenada/San Felipe
Member Is Offline
Mood: TEQUILA!
|
|
I have used the solar shower many times, and two gallons is about the minimum per person you will use. They do sell 5 gallon solar showers. Plus they
sell propane powered hot water heaters with a pump for showering.
We were doing a similar math for off-grid water while living in a trailer/RV. We worked it out to about 11 gallons per day for everything, including
flush toilets.
| Quote: Originally posted by Howard | Assuming you are going in the Winter months I would figure 1 gallon per day for 2 people for personal drinking. It will vary depending on your
activity level.
Then you have showers and doing dishes, say at least another gallon per person per day.
Can you use paper plates and paper/plastic cups, forks and knifes? (To you tree huggers, my apologies)
Add more water to the list for coffee and if you cook or bringing a pet.
[Edited on 11-18-2015 by Howard] |
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
|
|
|
cliffh
Nomad
Posts: 325
Registered: 1-23-2010
Location: buena vista, BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
Udo right on, we use 10 to 11 gal. per day when we dry camp. We do 2 to 3 trips during the winter to the pacific side for 7 to 10 days.
|
|
|
cliffh
Nomad
Posts: 325
Registered: 1-23-2010
Location: buena vista, BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
Udo right on, we use 10 to 11 gal. per day when we dry camp. We do 2 to 3 trips during the winter to the pacific side for 7 to 10 days.
|
|
|
Hook
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9009
Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
Member Is Offline
Mood: Inquisitive
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by lencho | | Quote: Originally posted by Hook | | Avoid wearing hats if possible. They trap head moisture and oil and that attracts more dirt. |
I have lost two friends to skin cancer, which might have been avoided with hats. How do you deal with solar exposure?
|
I considered the area he was going to. I would expect lots of overcast days in those months.
But visors work for the other days.
Dont know what to say about a bald pate. Except that if you're bald, then you wont have much hair to get dirty, anyway.
|
|
|
Chupacabra
Nomad
Posts: 476
Registered: 7-11-2013
Location: La Jolla, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
Considering that there is a major windsurfing camp there run by Solosports, you may be able to make some kind of arrangement with them to re-up on
water as needed.
http://solosports.net/
************************************
WTF
|
|
|
MMc
Super Nomad
Posts: 1679
Registered: 6-29-2011
Member Is Offline
Mood: Current
|
|
Following Chupacabra's lead there is a small town just south of the camp, there maybe water there also. If you need to drive back to town maybe stay a
night and clean-up and refill.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
|
|
|
mojo_norte
Senior Nomad
Posts: 725
Registered: 2-14-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
There's no water source out there. All water's brought in from El Rosario over the bad road.
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
does the OP know the THE WIND BLOWS out there? that would imply dust stuck to every exposed piece of skin and therefore, more water to remove.
would it be too difficult to bring ten additional 5 gallon jugs (think Sparklett's jugs) that would double his time on the point.
or he could contact SoloSports and ask what the cost would be to glom onto a refill for the entire area...... just sayin'.
[Edited on 11-20-2015 by woody with a view]
|
|
|
bajabuddha
Banned
Posts: 4024
Registered: 4-12-2013
Location: Baja New Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Always cranky unless medicated
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by juandesiles | Hi,
we are going of grid for a month, around Punta San Carlos, 3hrs drive from El Rosario in North Baja.
how meny gallons of water do i need for 2 persons a week?
thanx
|
After many a year river guiding, basic rule was one gallon per day per person. If the river was muddy or the weather hot we'd up it to two per day.
My basic math suggestion to your direct question is: 2 people, 15 gallons/week. Joy dish soap is bathable in the ocean as well.
Cooler management is a good gig also; if you have food or beverage coolers, drain the water off each morning into a bucket, and use for rinsing
dishes/silverware with a few drops of Clorox. Draining excess water makes your ice last longer as well.
Added: If you're at all worried and want to play safe, make it 20 gal's/week and you'll be stylin'. 
[Edited on 11-20-2015 by bajabuddha]
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
|
|
|
carlosg
Senior Nomad
Posts: 504
Registered: 5-28-2012
Location: chula vista, ca
Member Is Offline
Mood: Just like in Baja: No Bad Days...
|
|
...you can always DISTILL your own...
follow the link to youtube:
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=78365&got...
...just adapt it to what ever you have laying around and buy what you need at the hardware store and shazam...!!! you got fresh distilled water from
sea water...!!! 
[Edited on 11-20-2015 by carlosg]
|
|
|
satmike
Nomad
Posts: 115
Registered: 12-19-2006
Location: Salt Lake/ Punta San Carlos
Member Is Offline
|
|
Solo is closed in the winter. Just a caretaker and he has basically no extra supply's. When they are open it's still bring your own
My wife and I spend the winters there,we go through about 180 gal. in six weeks.We shower in fresh water and have a dog
I go to town about every week on my moto for fruits and veggies, tortillas and what ever I can fit on my back.
the truck goes in every 6 weeks for water and propane.
the fishermen aren't into hauling water so I don't ask and I am a pretty good friend with a lot of them.
[Edited on 11-22-2015 by satmike]
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
