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Rainwater for drinking problems

gumbootmama
21 years ago

Hi

I live on an island out in the ocean, off of the west coast of Canada. I live about a block from the ocean, and tho I am "in town", I try to "unplug" in as many ways on my property as I can. Our town water has a ghastly amount of chlorine and chemicals in it...spring water is not close by, and I would like to collect rain water to drink. Do any of you have a system of doing this? How do you deal with bird poo on the roof, or the still water in the rain barrel going stagnant or growing green or black stuff, etc.?

I know spring water is best, since it has the minerals we need in it but surely in the old days not everyone had a spring and some had to use rain water.

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