Saving (and even DRINKING) your rainwater

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http://www.dailypaul.com/node/75947


I've been researching this for the past few days so I can have HEALTHIER and LESS-EXPENSIVE (free) water for lawn/garden and for drinking.

For those of you who think that the rainwater can't be safely harvested for drinking, I recommend the following book I just finished:

A Year of Drinking Berkey Purified Rainwater

http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/Buffer/Buffer.html


http://www.amazon.com/Year-Drinking-Berkey-Purified-Rainwater/dp/1435759273/r...


The setup for the lawn/garden should be a piece-of-cake. The drinkable version is a bit more involved, but I intend to work up to it.

The author of the book I recommended gives a comparison-chart of her rainwater (after mostly filtered) vs the city water in her Austin, TX-area town. The rainwater was many times cleaner and safer than the city stuff - AND that was the reading before she put it through her Berkey filtration system (the water dept requested the test be done on her MOSTLY-filtered PRE-Berkey rainwater).

So do any of you out there have any ideas or experience in this arena?

Here are some interesting links/vids:

This is a short video of one man's lawn/garden system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCccC1xTRQ&NR=1


Here's a site with great supplies and an ingenious water diverter:

Rain20 dot com: http://www.rain2o.com/howtodoit.html


Another great site with supplies and a great diverter:

The Garden Watersaver: http://www.gardenwatersaver.com/1.html