Camco TastePURE 22813 4-Ft RV Drinking Water Hose

Here's the thing about a drinking water hose. It's not a garden hose. A regular garden hose is fine for washing the boat or spraying off the dog, but you don't want to drink out of it, and you definitely don't want to fill your RV or boat freshwater tank with it. The Camco TastePURE 22813 is built for the water you actually drink, cook with, and brush your teeth with. Four feet long, threaded on both ends, and made to hook your rig up to a community water supply without leaching anything nasty into the line.

Why four feet? Because sometimes that's all you need. When the spigot sits right next to your city-water inlet, a long coiled hose is just clutter underfoot. This short length is the one boaters and RV owners keep for close hookups, for running from a filter to the inlet, or as an extension when a longer hose comes up just shy. It stores small and it's quick to connect.

The safety story is the real reason to buy this over whatever's hanging in the garage. It's NSF-approved, and it's free of BPA, phthalates, and lead. That matters. Cheap vinyl hoses can give water a plastic taste and can carry compounds you don't want in your glass, especially after the hose has been baking in the sun on a dock all afternoon. TastePURE hose is made to keep the water tasting like water, hot day or not.

It carries a 100 PSI working pressure rating, so it handles typical city-water and dockside pressure without ballooning or bursting. The 5/8-inch internal diameter gives you a solid flow rate, enough to fill a tank at a reasonable pace instead of standing there watching a trickle. If your hookup runs high on pressure, we still recommend a water pressure regulator upstream, which is cheap insurance for your rig's plumbing. That's true of any hose, not just this one.

Where a lot of hoses fail is the ends. The 22813 uses machined fittings with strain-relief ends. The strain relief is that flared collar where the fitting meets the hose, and it's the part that keeps the hose from kinking and cracking right at the connector after a season of being bent around a pedestal. Machined fittings thread on cleanly and seal without you cranking on them with pliers. Hand-tight and a quarter turn is usually all it takes.

This one is not a heated hose. So if you're camping or living aboard in freezing weather, this isn't the hose to leave charged overnight. Drain it when temperatures drop, or run a heated hose for genuine winter use. For three-season boating and RVing, a standard drinking hose like this is exactly what you want, and it's a lot easier to coil and store than a heated line.

Who's it for? Weekend boaters topping off the freshwater tank at the fuel dock. RV owners on full hookups who need a tidy short run to the inlet. Anyone who wants a spare that lives in the dock box or the RV bay for the day the main hose springs a leak. It's an inexpensive piece of gear that you'll be glad you had the day you need it.

A couple of habits will make it last. Drain it after each use so water isn't sitting in the line growing funk. Give it a flush at the start of the season before you fill your tank. Store it out of constant direct sun when you can. Do that and a TastePURE hose will give you clean water for a long time. Simple gear, done right.