How much is necessary per
person per day
Tucson claims to be a very conservative in their consumption at 160 gals per person per day
In a retreat or remote living situation how much do you think you would need:
To drink
To wash dishes, our bodies, our dwelling, our clothes, our food
To grow food
To cook with
To mix with the earth as a building material
http://www.tucsonaz.gov/water/docs/homeowner.pdf
http://www.nationalwatercenter.org/
How would you go about collecting
it?
Rain water collection
Pumping it in from springs or wells
Natural reservoirs
http://www.tucsonaz.gov/water/harvesting.htm
What are the options for storing
it
Tanks and cisterns
http://www.nationalwatercenter.org/rain_calcs.htm
Here’s an excel spread sheet Kat put together based on info
from the above page Catchment Calculator
How would you purify it for
drinking?
Filters and purifiers
http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/water.shtml
http://www.txses.org/epsea/stills.html
http://www.nyhallsci.org/biochem/content/educators/water_filter-educators.pdf
http://www.watercampws.uiuc.edu/
http://www.eco-web.com/cgi-local/sfc?a=/index/index.html&b=/index/chapter/3.html
Disposing of it once it has
been used
The permaculture ideals say that there is no waste water so how do you process
Gray water
Black water
http://www.ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/main.html
This is a homework assignment and a little quiz written by Yat Peng