Rainwater catchment and water filtration

**owiebrain** · 12-29-2005, 02:34 AM

Anyone have a rainwater catchment system and/or know about water filtration for such?

We're setting it up on the new house and I'm trying to finalize our plans, find good prices for everything, and get it going.

(Cindy, where are you? LOL)

**forestdale** · 12-29-2005, 03:43 AM

I have a 5000 litre rainwater tank. We don't drink our rainwater, we use it on the garden.

**owiebrain** · 12-29-2005, 04:40 PM

Ah, guess I forgot to mention that, yeah, this will be for household water, including drinking water.

**sunshine** · 12-29-2005, 10:46 PM

We have one that drains into a cistern. . . but it's not used for drinking-- bathing, laundry- yes, not not cooking or drinking.

**ACEHearts** · 12-30-2005, 11:52 PM

Hmm.. think you've already got all my suggestions... sediment, and ceramic filters, with a UV filter for the drinking water. Ya want me to come hook it up too???

**jlxian** · 01-04-2006, 11:29 AM

We do not have a cistern, however my dad grew up with one, and we also used one in a house we used to live in. The one we used ourselves supplied the hot water tank only.

A general rule from "old days" was to only catch winter rain. I'm guessing winter rain had less dirt or bacteria in it.

The one my dad grew up with had a gravel pit that filtered the water before it went into the cistern.

This is something we hope to rig up at our present house --- one of those "someday" things --- we want to catch rainwater to use on the garden. We figure just the rain off our barn would fill a tank in little time.