On Feb 21, 12:25 pm, Gordon Henderson
wrote:
In article ,

Jonathan wrote:

With modern mains water supplies and covered insect proof tanks I
don't think there is any problem at all with stored water. If the
water was from a well or spring I'd filter and UV treat it before
storeage but you'd do that even if using direct.

We had spring water in our last house for 18 years. It had minute
shrimps in it 1-2cm long. I had a filter to cathc those and small
pieces of grit that blocked the ballcock. ?Thast was all we did and it
was fine - no ill-effects. Our neighbour who is 89 is going strong and
she drank it for 50 years.

There is a small river at the bottom of our graden and I have toyed with
the idea of using it then getting a water meter to save a bit of money
but it would require some 100m of hosepipe to get it close to the house
(garden is not that big, just detatched!) Getting a submersible pump
to it isn't an issue, but getting electrickery to the pump is - even
assuming I could get a hose there, so preferably, I'd need a pump at the
house end that could suck air through 100m of pipe before it got wet...
Total lift isn't much but needs to be considered...

Maybe one day!

Gordon

prime it from the house end first & have a non-returrn valve at the
bottom?

Jim K