Worth watching:clarionite wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:00 pmI'm looking for rural land currently. And garden water is part of the planning process. I've been pricing storage tanks. Part of what I've been wanting was a french drain into a tank burred for use as a cistern. I hadn't worked out the specifics of making it potable yet.The Annoyed Man wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:51 pm Questions like "how much water should I store" are very good reasons to COOHMP. Personally, we have a LOT of bottled water stored, but it’s nowhere near enough. There can never BE enough, for the 6 of us who live here and and being located in suburbia, without there being a steady source that’s independent of the water grid.
Our next step is to buy a couple (to start) of 275 gallon water tanks and connect them to our rain gutters. We'll then run them through a Berky filter for drinking. Otherwise we'll use it for taking spit baths and watering the garden.
But ultimately, we still need to "come out of her my people" and find a rural property with its own well.
https://youtu.be/iVomoq4VTHM