Clean Water Bowls VS Algea Covered or Stagnate Water

like already said the translucent buckets or the white ones are bad about getting algae especially in the sunlight...I have been using auto watering assemblies for at least 20 years and it sure is the best way I know to minimize work...I do keep a five gallon bucket full of water in the back yard when I turn the dogs loose they can gulp it down...when I clean the bucket out if I don't kill the algae with Clorox it will be back in 2 or 3 days...if I wash it out with Clorox it will go almost a week before algae starts to grow...but when I wash it with Clorox and then fill it up with water and add a dash of Clorox it will last longer...I just add water as needed until it dilutes...usually gets dirty before it gets algae...

I remember as a kid my dogs and I would sometimes drink out of a slimey pond in the middle of August in the middle of the hot day...sometimes we got pretty thirsty running the countryside...only packing a gig for a spear or a slingshot and a pocket full of rocks...back then there was no such thing as clean water for the dogs...drink out of a canal or the slimey cow trough...that was normal...