permaculture

["Yaya Balinci" <yaya@telus.net>]

My first gut feeling would be to run the rainwater through three cement
boxes (or hemp or horsetail boxes) filled with sand, then one flowform into
a drinking water holding tank. At all junctures there should be a tap where
you can test the water at each of its phases if you wish. The three boxes
could allow just sand and carbon filtering or 1 for plants and sand, one for
sand, one for carbon etc etc.?
Yaya Balinci

> I'm curious to know how many people using rainwater actually drink it, and
> what kind of treatment they use.
>
> We have a metal roof (colorbond) and a 5000-gallon concrete tank that we
use
> for everything but drinking. Our well water sucks, so I'd like to begin
> drinking the cistern water, but haven't sorted out all the many possible
> treatment options.
>
> The other issue with the cistern is our wood stove. We haven't graduated
to
> a masonry or other clean-burning stove yet, so the smoke wafts across the
> roof, and imparts a faint smoky flavor (creosote?) to the water, which is
> the main reason I'm not drinking it.
>
> Toby
>
>
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