6pot
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Nice. We can 'only' store 12000 L.We had the fire department deliver 2 loads this week so 24 cubic meters nice having a shower int it price has gone up but the vegetables like it
Yes you can buy a lot of water for that. We had/have (long story) a borehole 110m deep and ones along those lines cost about 10 grand, although we didn't pay to do it, it came with the house because there is no water. Your neighbour should probably bear in mind he might also need three phase electricity to operate it (we do), depending on depth.Boyo wants water to his property for watering etc. i.e. he doesn't want to have to pay for it.
so has been looking into getting someone to make a borehole for him
30 metres deep.
So he was all chuffed to tell me tother day that he has finally found someone who'll do it... €5k.
Not saying that is an unreasonable sum, not that I have anything to judge it by, but I did say he needed to think seriously about capturing the water coming off his roof like we do. Not in exactly the same way as that would entail major works to put in an underground tank and pipes, but to at least have a system of butts like lots of us do in the UK and indeed we did before all the Frog stuff took off. He is at least thinking seriously about it.
Can't help thinking that €5k buys an awful lot of water. Our bills have dropped but not by a huge amount once we started pumping our own stuff for watering the plants.
We recycle waste water and store as much rain water as possible but are planning a new bigger underground tank.
Our water is straight out of the ground and untreated so although we cook/wash with it we can't drink it. Currently we have a water softener so the water in undrinkable anyway and its customary to drink bottled water in Iberia anyway, so we use that and also for water added to food when cooking, also for boiling for tea/coffee.
