Dec 23, 2009 The new backup water system. This is an olderstyle pump that I acquired. Ray Osborne did some restoration on it for me. It still leaks a little but I am working on that. I hope to use this system for all washing and will install a separate system for drinking water.

Mat is planning to only use the city water for drinking and he is going to use his sump water for every thing else , or as he put it

"why use good water for everything when you have lots of water in the sump ?"

	Here is Mat taking down the rain barrels and then cleaning them for the winter.
	Here Mat is (again) dumping the water in the rain barrels out and to the ground. My, what a mess that makes!!! Updated by Clare
	Nov 2007 Yes the solar water heater sits on top of a cistern I created in the summer of 2007. The solar water heater is incomplete as of nov 2007 but it does produce a lot of hot water. Plans are underway to complete the solar water heater so that it has a cover for the cold nights. So far the temperature keep[s above freezing. The cistern will have a water pump and pressure system that will service all the washing. Drinking water is yet to be determined.
	Summer of 2007 Luckily for me I decided to put and ev ew trough on the barn and then collect the rain water. This was very fortuitous for the very dry summer of 2007!