Replying to @Alexa Marie how to build an off grid water system. #offgrid #offgridliving #honduras #roatan #reverseosmossis ##rainwater##construction

This is how you build an off-grid water filtration system using rainwater that you've captured. So, you're going to use from your gutters, you're going to have them come down. You want to install a system like this. This is called a leaf cutter, and this is going to help keep debris out of your cistern. Rainwater comes down through this, down into a cistern. This is a 35,000-gallon cistern. This is what the cistern looks like. See that? That's full of water. You see how clear it is? This is full right now because we're at the end of the rainy season. You've got two options with your cistern. The first is a concrete system like us, so it's just a huge concrete tomb kind of a thing, and then you've got to line that with a waterproofing system. They often get that wrong, so make sure you get the right system for that. That's going to cost you about $1.25 to build, $1.25 a gallon to build. Your other option is to use big plastic tanks, and some people use those. The problem with that is you need lots and lots of those tanks, but you don't have to worry about them leaking. 35,000 gallons, that's a lot of water, but it only takes about two storms to fill up that entire cistern if we get really big storms. So you need an overflow pipe. That's what this is. If the water fills up the cistern, it's now going to come down, come out here, come underwater, and empty into our overflow pond over there. Now you've got to treat that water because if you don't, you can get sick. Now you're going to divide your water into two segments, the water that you drink and the water that you just use for general purpose, watering the plants, showering, toilets, things like that. The stuff that you're not going to drink goes through these two filters here, and that gets out most of the stuff that's in the water. But if you're going to drink it after it goes through here, you're also going to send it through this system. This is a reverse osmosis system. It's going to do more treatment. This is the one that we use. You can find lots of them on Amazon. And in addition to that, we run that through a UV light for a final level of filtration. The next thing you've got to do is you've got to provide pressure to your system so that it can push the water up when you turn on a tap. That's done with a pump. That pump keeps pressure in your plumbing, but you don't want that pump to come on every single time that you turn on a tap or flush your toilet. That's what this huge tank is for. This is a pressure tank, and it builds up pressure inside of here. That maintains pressure in your system. The pressure goes down, and once it reaches a certain level, the pump goes on, repressurizes the system. So it kind of acts as a buffer. On my sister's house, the one we installed was not this big, and that was a mistake. You want your pump to come on as least as possible, so get a big pressure tank. One thing that's important are these pipes here that take the drinking water to your fountains. Make sure that you get this product from the United States. There's a similar product down in Honduras, and it's one of the things that it's not as good here. So order that and have that shipped down. Then inside your house, you're going to have two faucets everywhere, one that has your general water and one that has your drinking water. Until you build an off-grid water system.