How We Collect, Store, and Filter Rainwater For Everyday Use

How We Collect, Store, and Filter Rainwater For Everyday Use
We live almost one hundred percent on rainwater. We get a lot of questions about how we keep the water safe for drinking and other uses. We try to answer all of those questions here. We may have missed some, so please feel free to leave any questions in the comment box below.

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We are Jim and Jessica, a husband and wife team who made the leap from city life to an off-grid homestead in Southern Arizona. We've started this lifestyle equipped only with two Permaculture Design Certificates and a whole lot of determination.

We’d like to share our journey of starting a sustainable homestead from scratch with all its ups, downs, and lessons learned. Watch us take on the challenge of modern homesteading, off-grid life, and turning this barren piece of land into a desert oasis.

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[ourselfreliantlife]

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[deborahmcsweeney]

I love our Berkey! Over 15 years now! Thank you for being so respectful of the water. We don't need as much as people think!

[pcguysoffgridcabin]

We use a aquarium filter sock to filter water before it hits the tanks. Filters down to 100 microns so they claim. It keeps the trash out of the tanks the same way your screens do.

[hopeheavenonplanetearth]

I don’t think you are sponsored by Berkey… but you should be! That was a great endorsement!
I love my Berkey 🙏

[MummaGee]

I love how you guys use this beautiful channel as a classroom for all of us. Thanks so much. Glenda from Australia 😎❤

[hansschutte]

A huge HI to both of you from East Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. We also live entirely on the water we catch and store from the various roofs on our 37 acre rural property. There is a slight slope to our land which we utilised by placing a water tank at the high point which provides 11meters of head at the house, more than adequate for domestic purposes. The rain water is pumped to the high tank by a "Savonius Rotor" wind turbine which I basically built from accumulated scrap steel. The rotor is mounted in a 40 foot high tower, again built from scrap, which is able to be tilted over to lay flat for maintenance if needed. We use a coarse filter which is fitted on the intake of the tower 2 parrallel diaphragm pumps, and a very fine mesh filter at the house, followed by a 50micron filter. We have lived here since new years eve in 1979, and when we bought the place, a year before that, it was an open paddock with absolutely no infrastructure.

[Citystead]

I only collect rain water for the garden but it would be great to have it to use as a backup if needed. You guys have taught me a ton about water harvesting

[BrainStormAcres]

Thanks for sharing how your rainwater harvesting system works. Lots of folks don’t think about all the bits and pieces. Live our Berkey!

[danerskine]

Great video!
Suggestion: Where the water comes off the roof and is screened before it goes into the water system pipe. If that collection point is cut at an angle rather than flat/horizontal the water or wind will wash the debris away reducing the chance of clogging.
Also, the Berky is a great filter but to save money I bought a kit and converted two good grade buckets into a filter.
Again great video and thanks

[Maria-yssc]

I get excited when you guys post videos, keep them coming.

[gravelfloorgarage]

Great to see you both loving life, this is the real life, the best lifestyle. Keep up the great videos, stay real, a big HELLO from New Zealand. Jim & Jess Thank you.

[WhatDadIsUpTo]

I capture 2, 000 gallons of rainwater and filter it through a homemade gravel, sand, and lump charcoal filter using a 4-inch PVC pipe & fittings.

I also use a composting toilet inside my house in North Texas.

[j.t.]

Nice of y’all to be patient enough to answer all us viewers’ (sometimes redundant) questions again. 🙏

[fraslavko]

Good to see you, and thanks for the info. The roof guttering/rain drain( ?) is a way better to catch water than the previous cement gutters lol... I enjoy how you live and learn ! Blessings on your day....

[saintracheljarodm.holy-kay]

Me so glad you shower!☺👍
Take care and God bless amen.

[benzoverakers]

Great information on the water catchment, and how it's used.

[Jay-pcjx]

Thanks for showing us how its done, great vid guys! Can't wait to see the filtration system for the cistern and see it in action for the first time. Those boots are looking great on you Jess! Won't find those on any stores shelves. I thought I could make a pair of boots last. I got nothing on you.

[robinbowman]

Am so interested in your gardening system. Please tell more about the pot system.

[chandrasutton]

Good job on collecting and filtering water!!!

[janettaylor]

Loving watching you and sharing knowledge it's useful you never know when you need your idea's...I have running water I pay for so I use everything sparingly never waste anything to electric and gas living alone I pay the bills it's learning to save money plus I've cancer in my left kidney and can't take biopsy because the one I have will seed when needle is pulled out...so its gone dormant for some reason at 10cm and another next to it I got a insurance to pay for my funeral and bought my plot 25 years ago to be next to my best friend we were sisters really...don't want my children paying us they get some money each forward thinking not being morbid paid my father's when he died my 4 siblngs didn't have the money and my older brother was paying his house and made redundant...if I was like I was years ago done houses up 1971 to late 80s then did boats up moved on to turning VW vans into campers so like DIY I've made all kinds of things...enjoy you're day ❤