Aussie caravan family's warning after 'gross' discovery on the road
A family travelling around Australia in their caravan is warning others to urgently get a filter for their water tap after their own was clogged up with dirty, brown debris after only four days.
Bek and Doug Roberts are living on the road full time with their kids Ava and Conner but hit a bump late last year when they all contracted giardia — an infection caused by a parasite found in contaminated water. Since then, they have installed a filter to their water supply and have been reminded time and time again why it was the right decision for them.
"We all got giardia, so afterwards we got this filter that eliminates bacteria and dirt and it's been pretty good ever since," Bek told Yahoo News. "It's obviously a lot of stuff from the pipes."
Footage shows Bek emptying the family's filter and a blast of brown water sprouting from it.
"It's every campground since we left Brisbane [their home] that our filter has been clogged up like that," she explained, calling it "gross". "We've connected it to town water along the New South Wales coastline, and after four days, we were shocked at how much build-up was in it."
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The family say they haven't looked back since installing their $159 water filter and are pleased the days of nonstop vomiting and stomach cramps caused by the infection are behind them.
"At the end of the day, the filter is doing its job and it's not going in our bodies so that is great. We assumed town water was fit and healthy, but it just goes to show that there is still quite a bit of stuff in it," Bek said.
She is now urging others to simply invest in a similar filter to give travellers an extra line of defence against campground water.
"If you just want that extra bit of peace of mind for clean drinking water, I would get any kind of filter that sort of does a similar job," she said.
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