Getting Started With Off-Grid Water Systems

Interested in learning more about getting your water off the grid? Join us as we explore different methods and techniques for collecting and moving your own water. We'll explore the basics of collecting rain water versus ground water, lifestyle changes you can make to decrease your water usage, and how to manage your own water throughout its lifecycle. Let us know: do you have an off-grid water system? If so, what has worked for you?
Original Article: insteading.com/blog/off-grid-...
References:
Average American Water Usage: www.usgs.gov/special-topics/w...
Hand Water Pumps: insteading.com/blog/hand-pump/
Fracking and Well Water: www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Rainwater Harvesting: insteading.com/blog/rainwater...
Chemical Leaching in Rainwater: www.sightline.org/2015/01/07/...
DIY Rain Barrel: insteading.com/blog/diy-rain-...
How to Build a Pond: insteading.com/blog/fish-farm...
Springs: www.motherearthnews.com/homes...
Storage Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers and Ponds by Art Ludwig: oasisdesign.net/water/storage/
How to Make a Rain Chain: insteading.com/blog/how-to-ma...
Rainwater Cisterns: extension.psu.edu/rainwater-c...
Chlorine and Fluorine in City Water: www.hunker.com/12219619/the-e...
Composting Toilet: humanurehandbook.com/
Liquid Gold: www.liquidgoldbook.com/
Sponge Bath: www.motherearthnews.com/natur...
Using a Clothesline: insteading.com/blog/clothesline/
Berkey Filter: www.berkeyfilters.com/
Filtering Rainwater for Drinking: theberkey.com/blogs/water-fil...
Create and Oasis with Grey Water by Art Ludwig: oasisdesign.net/greywater/crea...
Earthship Series by Michael Reynolds: www.earthshipglobal.com/books

[@ksbrook1430]

Yes. Very good overview of the options. And I appreciate the resources you have shared for finding more information. Right now I live in an apartment, so establishing an off-grid water system is not an option. BUT, I can start thinking of ways to reduce my water consumption (for example, using my dishwater to flush the toilet and start doing more sponge baths), as well as finding a way to collect rain-water for my houseplants, even if it is only for a few months.

[@Br0nyAn0myn0u5]

Great vid! love how much info there is in this one, all the links too!

[@sweaterdoll]

Great video. Urine is not sterile. If it were, we wouldn't be handing a urine sample to the nurse for labs to determine whether or not we have bacterial and viral infections. It can still be used for lots of things, but no, it is not sterile. When I had to haul water from a well into my Alaskan cabin with two toddlers, water usage became a significant life skill. We used the three dish tub method for washing dishes, the first with hot water (about 2-3" full), the others with an inch or so of room temp rinse water. I bathed the kids every 3-4 days in a washtub. I used about 1 gallon of water for myself once or twice a week, first dipping my head into a deep pail of water and washing it with a touch of natural shampoo. I used a cup to rinse out into a dish tub. When mostly rinsed, I washed my body with the barely soapy rinse water, then dipped my head into the remaining clean water for a final hair rinse and poured the remaining water over myself to clean myself off completely. 1 gallon or less did this with long hair. Another tip, though, is to cut your hair and you have less to wash. The rest of the week was a washcloth bath. Sometimes we just used a dry bath brush and then a very wet washcloth to wash off dirt and dead skin.

[@kayk8389]

yeah....thats not living

[@sweaterdoll]

@@kayk8389 Says you. LOL I felt totally alive and glad I knew how to live without conveniences so we didn't smell like modern people who don't know how to take care of themselves without push-button everything. Sometimes you don't have the buttons to push and you still want to be clean and well fed and happy. So you turn into a human being and learn to live well in your circumstances instead of being a whiny lump of useless.

[@NicholasHowardMusic]

Nice resource. Thank you.

[@Kaczyfunny]

Great video thank.

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[@stevecrabtree7654]

Collecting rainwater is the best and easiest for city people like me.Its actually better than the city water.

[@zaizen4359]

I may be misinformed, but would you kindly explain to me how rainwater is better when they apparently spray the air full of minerals/chemicals that are bad for human health (aluminum, etc) which rain water passes through?

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Been drinking out of stream gull of fish snd eild animals forty years no filter no issues😊

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A few thousand dollars for a well. 😅 I wish.

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[@JA4grace]

Why does she need to talk so fast???? Sounds like a robot going fast forward. I would love to listen to her videos if it wasn’t it talks way to fast! 😢

[@trevorsherwood4324]

You can set the playback speed to .75, may help. I generally watch videos at 1.5 speed because they are too slow, but this one was the perfect speed for me 🙂