Rainwater catchment

Updated,
Originally posted on 7.5.18:

7.11,18:

Used the first gallon of rainwater in the swamp cooler.  It smells like a hospital in here now, lol.  Remember that I treated it with chlorox?

Anyway, it cooled it down 10 degrees in here really fast.  One hour, to be exact.  A gallon of water for a cooler trailer isn't a bad trade.

It made me think of how to use recycled water that I want to start collecting.  Maybe use it in the solar distiller, and collect that water, and use it in the swamp cooler. 

The idea is to run it through the distiller twice.  Once, to recycle water from everyday use, then the second time though a type of cooling process for the roof.  A distiller would be on the roof, and it would be doing double duty, cleaning up the water and cooling down the place.

A new project in the works.  So much for this post.


7.8.18:

More rain yesterday.  I collected 4.5 gallons today, plus that much before.  I now have 9 gallons of clean water stashed away for my swamp cooler.

I have been using the freezer lately, too.  It is a bit of a problem to try to time it so that the ice is not wasted.  Rainy days are not good days for this.  But that is a different discussion.

The original post follows:

It rained here yesterday, so that provided an opportunity to grab some rainwater for the swamp cooler.

Now, the problem with the swamp cooler is that it uses more water than the budget for water will allow.  Therefore, a source for water has to be obtained.  Ta Da!  Rain.

The problem with rainwater is that it doesn't stay clean when it arrives at the bucket that is being used to collect it.  It needs some cleaning up.

That's what I've been doing today.  You would not think that five gallons of water would be so much work.  Much of my afternoon has been spent cleaning up this water and chlorinating it.  Now that five gallons has been obtained, further may be anticipated as more rain is in the forecast.

Such fun.

Life may be easier in the corrupt cities.

But to be beautiful takes some work.  lol.