Gathering Water Without Electricity

If your house has guttering, redirect the down spouts to channel water into 55 gallon drums. First wash as much debries off the roof as you can to gather cleaner water. This water can be used for drinking water if filtered first and boiled. It can also be used for bathing, gardening, flushing toilets, animals, etc.

You can build a guttering system on your house or other outbuildings by cutting PVC pipes in half, nailing under the roof line, then
directing a downspout toward an elevated 250 gal. tank with a first water runoff catch. Set the tank on a platform at the back of the house just under the eaves. Connect a pipe midway down on the tank and run it to another tank (connected at the top) so that the overflow will empty into the other.

A makeshift solar hot water heater for the small tank (with a spigot attached) can be made with tin roofing sheets painted flat black, nailed to a wooden frame the size of the tank. Staple or nail insulation to the sides (on the outside) of the box to help retain
heat on cold days. If you have a creek, dam up part of the creek and divert enough water to run through a trough inside of a Spring House (makeshift refrigerator). Or build a ram pump to pump water up to the house. A pond is another good
water source of water for non-drinking purposes (garden, toliet, livestock, etc). Build or buy a solar pump to pump water to the
designated site.

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