The world is not really as dangerous as we've been led to believe. The
cistern on the place we recently bought was at one time the only source of
water. I'm sure they drank from it for 70+ years. There is a charcoal
filter of sorts under the gutter downspout, made of brick. A pipe then
leads under ground to the cistern. Ours is 22' deep with 18' of water in
it. I'd rather drink rainwater that's been stored in a nice cool stone
lined cistern than the crap that comes out of some city's systems.

--
Steve Barker



"Bob" wrote in message
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Pop wrote:

A reliable, "good" cistern is fairly expensive to run these days.
You can't have the old open types that used to exist. Where is
it getting its water from?

Pop`

I've always wondered about the old cisterns that gathered water from
rain runoff. Seems like runoff would contain all sorts of insects,
bird crap, etc. Did people use that water for drinking water? Sure
doesn't sound healthy.

Bob