Land seekers: burn this into your brains! Again, again and again. It
is common sense; we all know it, yet again and again we learn of
people whose lives are diminished by lack of sufficient water. Worry
much more about quantity than quality. Quality can be improved.
Quantity often cannot.
That said, Don and I were tossing around the idea of rain water
collection. This subject merits further discussion. I say calculate
your annual water needs, double that, then calculate how large a roof
would be needed to get that much water with your MINIMUM average
annual rainfall. It seems to me that we here can come up with a
very-low-cost roof that puts rainwater into a vessel that sits higher
than our houses and gardens. You flatlanders may have pressure
challenges but at 2.2 feet elevation per pound of pressure, it takes
only a small hill to provide adequate household pressure. Garden
irrigation can be and is often ideal at low pressure.
Now don't let this rainwater collection stuff cause you to lose that
mantra: I need water; I need water; I need water. Repeat regularly.
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