
Category Archives: Water


The Dehumidifier Does My Laundry
Use the water from your dehumidifier for your laundry machine

Tree-inspired 30′ High Basket Brings Water to the Desert
Collects over 25 gallons of fresh water daily, costs about $550, and can be built from local materials by a team of 4 in under 1 week (Wired Magazine article). See Worka Water.
Water: Making and Operating Your Own Berkey-Type Water Filter
Make your own Berkey-type water filter for $117.

Water: Storing and Filtering
See summary parent article on short-term disaster resilience and prepping for other priorities. Storing Water Just thought this spoof on storing “dehydrated” water was pretty funny (see picture), although the source of the picture apparently took it seriously! In any case, the US Government recommends buying commercially purified water for storage, but they also provide […]
Water: Harvesting Rain Water
Water & Resilience. Through a case-study of Troy Gardens Community Co-housing. Related post: Food; Filtering Water Summary: With 101,920 square feet of impermeable surface area, Troy can harvest about 1.8 M gallons of water (63% of the water we use). NOW: How much of the harvestable water can we actually store and use? Use depends […]