If you don’t want to have to lift the heavy bottle and flip it upside down…and you don’t mind drinking warm water, you can also use bottled water pumps as a more economical option.

I found it very useful. Thanks for the knowledge. I am personally trying to follow the advice & try to be independent….

Visit url: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rainwaterharvesting/

This is a free and open forum for discussion of rainwater harvesting as alternative source of water for household, garden and rainfed farming needs.

Asit Sahu

Do you think that rainwater catchment and purification for domestic use would be popular where you are, or where you have been in Asia? A friend mine, Kitisark, told me that rainwater is captured by some in Thailand for drinking.

Maybe that’s something that I will invest in, where ever I end up. (http://www.rwh.in/ & http://www.rainbarrelguide.com/) I provide the establishment with a water catchment and purification system and training how to use and maintain it…and it cost me a certain amount. That amount would then be translated into local currency or into ounces of silver or grams of gold or whatever other commodity mutually agreed upon.

Then instead of reimbursing me with money per se, I could use that “credit” as I saw fit…you know like a year’s worth of living accommodation or whatever…

All that day dreaming made me thirsty. You guessed it. I drink herbal tea mostly, hot or cold. and I have a tea-belly to prove it. ^!^