How to Design and Build a Water System for Your Backwoods Home

home water system

By H. Skip Thomsen

There are as many variables in the design requirements of wilderness home water systems as there are homes to design them for. Some of the circumstances determining these variables are:

  • where the water comes from
  • the quantity of water available
  • the quantity required
  • how it is stored
  • the kind of electricity that is available
  • the amount of that electricity.

Let’s discuss each of these briefly, and then employ them in viable combinations…

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