Why Don’t You Have A Home Cistern?
Jun 16th, 2008 | By moneyking | Category: Real Estate
For your consideration: Why Don’t You Have A Home Cistern?
It seems that our penchant for saving and making money is completely ceaseless, doesn’t it?
Well, here’s the next greatest idea:
A Home Cistern
No. These things aren’t new. No. They’re not all that difficult to figure out. No. They don’t cost more than like 50 bucks to catch runoff water from your gutters or from the sky.
But, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Many people seem to like paying the city, or (for the love of all that is holy) that damn Aqua America water cartel to water plants and flowers in their yard.
Are you going to drink your cistern water? No. Are you going to let your dog drink cistern water? Maybe. Are we talking about running cistern water in your home? No.
What we’re talking about, and what we’re asking is: WHY don’t you collect some of the Earth’s water for your own use. It’s readily available!
Good luck out there.
Keywords: water, cistern, collect, save, utility, plants, flowers
I’m assuming this is the same thing as a rain barrel; it’s at least the same concept. I agree it totally makes sense for lawn care. People spend ridiculous amounts of money and water (and other resources) on their lawns. Businesses are even worse. We’ve all seen automatic sprinkler systems running in the middle of a thunder storm. Meanwhile people are drinking stagnant water in third world countries; alls ya gotta do is pick out the mosquito larvae.