Do you have a backup water system?

Do you have a backup water system?

  • Yes

    Votes: 153 46.1%

  • No

    Votes: 95 28.6%

  • No, but looking into it

    Votes: 73 22.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 11 3.3%
  • Total voters
    332
CommonSense said:
Then we will battle them in the streets. Every man for himself.
Been through this scare tactics before. CoCT spend billions in the Day Zero fiasco.
How many desalanation plants were actually producing drinking water at the end of the day?

People bought Jojo tanks which at the end is not suitable for potable water use without expensive filters and pumps and whatnot.. Most of those tanks were for capturing rain water from polluted roofs (even asbestos roofs).

And most of those tanks would have run dry within a week or two in any case, even if used for flushing toilets and showers.

A lot of ground water is not suitable for drinking in any case without very expensive treatment due to heavy metal content and other seepage.

It can be done, but at a huge premium. The bottled water industry will just step up their production.
Or we will drink brandy and flush with whiskey.
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True.

There is no point in collecting rainwater from the roof. No roof or gutter is clean. A leaf eater and nylon stocking is not enough.

My wellpoint yields more water than I can use, except is not very useful for anything other than irrigation and toilets.
 
Bliksis said:
There is no point in collecting rainwater from the roof. No roof or gutter is clean. A leaf eater and nylon stocking is not enough.
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Nonsense. A toilet flush is what 9 litres? A load of laundry is between 50 and 100 litres? A shower can use anything up to 15 litres per minute. None of those things require potable water.
 
bwana said:
Nonsense. A toilet flush is what 9 litres? A load of laundry is between 50 and 100 litres? A shower can use anything up to 15 litres per minute. None of those things require potable water.
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It's perfectly fine for toilets as long as it's properly filtered, but I won't use it for washing or showering.
 
Bliksis said:
It's perfectly fine for toilets as long as it's properly filtered, but I won't use it for washing or showering.
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Chlorinate it (HTH) ? and you get 3 stage reverse osmotic filters for the JoJos.

You can simply boil and cool it as well in a crisis as long as the sediment is out and it appears clear
 
Bliksis said:
It's perfectly fine for toilets as long as it's properly filtered, but I won't use it for washing or showering.
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I do, every day. Laundry is the one thing we have been doing solely with harvested rainwater since I installed the tanks more than two years ago, when at the time we had a top loader that used over 100 litres per load. Even when the rest of the house is using municipal.
 
RiaX said:
Chlorinate it (HTH) ? and you get 3 stage reverse osmotic filters for the JoJos.

You can simply boil and cool it as well in a crisis as long as the sediment is out and it appears clear
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True but at this point it's not worth the money and effort for me.
 
Live 3km away from a big dam. So yeah....

Also have 1000L in storage for when **** hits the fan.

Edit: 800L. Target is 1000.
 
Bliksis said:
True but at this point it's not worth the money and effort for me.
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Indeed hence crisis. My Jojo tank is purely used for watering my plants. Rather have one just in case
 
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Solarion said:
Live 3km away from a big dam. So yeah....

Also have 1000L in storage for when **** hits the fan.

Edit: 800L. Target is 1000.
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1000l of potable water?

We've got 100l of RO water and 12000 rainwater that can be treated easily enough.
 
Bliksis said:
It's perfectly fine for toilets as long as it's properly filtered, but I won't use it for washing or showering.
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A small bank of sediment filters works wonders. Its only for potable water that the prices starts to jack up.
 
bwana said:
1000l of potable water?

We've got 100l of RO water and 12000 rainwater that can be treated easily enough.
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It's the 25L purified water containers. Lasts about 1.5 years so I keep them in rotation. Used to have one of those at my old place only the 5000L.
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
I have a pump in the garage, waiting to be connected to the main house. Have 1x 5KL tank, planning on adding a second.

It won't be drinking water, but can be used in the case where our water goes out for extended periods, to shower and so on.

If I do have extra funds towards the end of the year, I'll see what a borehole will set me back and then use the tanks a buffer in between.
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I just had a jojo tank in case water goes off for extended periods.
 
I just have a JoJo tank in case water goes off for extended hours.
 
bwana said:
Sometimes you need legislation to make up for stupidity.

For example if I lived in a block of flats serviced by roof top tanks I'd be happy there was legislation in place to make sure the water coming out of the taps was still potable.
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Ja. You don't want to see what comes out of those roof tanks in blocks of flats when and if they are cleaned.
 
Wow, it is easy to see those that never grew up on a farm. Where do you think most farms get their water from? None of this is terribly complicated, but it takes some thought to get it right and then it just works after that. The only water that you need to ensure potable is what is used for drinking and cooking. The rest should at least meet some minimum standard but it does not have to be potable.
 
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