Current Capacity: about 2 litres, I think we can do better! No, seriously, this is the only thing collecting water from the house at the moment. A single plastic jug under one of the downpipes. It’s a little below the 6,000l capacity I’ve been planning in my thoughts on Rainwater Tanks. (The rocks were kindly [...]
Archive for the ‘Water’ Category
19 Mar
Creating a home greywater system
Just a quick pointer to a video from Peak Moment that I’ve posted over at le Jardin Potager looking at building a greywater system to reuse our waste water for watering the garden. This is a nice system, not too energy intensive and very food-focussed. To view the post go here: Creating a home greywater system.
19 Mar
A Cast-Iron Garden Hand-Pump
Another nice resilient piece of equipment. Assuming you’ve got some local water storage – hopefully big rainwater tanks – you need to be able to get to the water in case of long power shortages, where mains water is likely to be unavailable and power cannot be spared for electric water pumps. Here’s what you [...]
11 Feb
Reducing our Water Charges
Having been looking at increasing our resilience and reducing our impact by using rainwater internally from a large Rainwater Tank, one thing to note is that it can also save us money. Firstly we need to get a meter fitted, so that we’ll only pay our standing charge plus actual water usage. If we’re not using [...]
10 Feb
Rainwater tanks
As promised in my previous post about drinking water, here are my thoughts on our rainwater storage. In our current home town of Brisbane, Australia, the dams that supply our drinking water recently bottomed out at around 14% capacity. The severe water restrictions that we’ve had for years have meant that even in our inner-city suburb about half [...]
17 Sep
Resilience: Clean drinking water post-Peak-Oil
The number one item on my domestic resilience list is maintaining access to clean, safe, drinking water. Coming from Brisbane, where the dams that supply our drinking water recently bottomed out at around 14% capacity, I am keenly aware of the importance of available water. With increasingly unpredictable weather in the UK, and water treatment works subject to flooding and blackouts [...]
