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>> I'm afraid she's feeling the Bern!
@Safety44: But it's smart!
I wish I had a water collection system.
@Odin: It is a smart idea, but to make it payout, it would have to be pretty big collection system. Just watering a yard takes a lot of water.  When my dad was growing up in south LA, they had a large above-ground cistern to collect rainwater from the roof. That was their source of drinking water, bathing water, etc. Any solids/dirt/pollen/etc would eventually settle to the bottom, so the outlet on the cistern was several inches above the bottom. About once a year, they drained it and someone had to get inside to clean out the sludge that built up They finally got running water and electricity when he was in high school. They let nature water the yard.My best friends parent's had a fishing camp with a cistern. They didn't
completely trust it for drinking water but they had it connected so
they could flush the toilet. The camp was on an island in the swamp so the toilet was piped about a hundred feet away from the camp and just dumped in the swamp. Times were different then!
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