cisterns

Join me this week as we look at the basic types of water storage elements used in designing a functional broadacre water system.

Nearly all broadacre water systems include some form of water storage, either as groundwater (aquifer storage), retained soil moisture (accessible by living plant roots), or bulk water (ponds, lakes, tanks, cisterns). Water storage elements function to:

• cover peaks in demand (production from the water source cannot meet peak demand)
• smooth out variations in supply (seasonal changes in availability and ease of obtaining water)
• provide water security in case of supply interruption or disaster (supply buffers)
• save structures from wild fire
• meet legal requirements (firefighting, fire suppression sprinklers etc.)
• improve water quality (clarification, filtration, settling etc.)
• provide thermal storage and freeze protection (thermal mass of water modifies local microclimate)
• enable a smaller pipe to serve for a distant source (cost savings on water infrastructure)

In this show, we're going to talk about the four main types of water storage elements that you might encounter while optimizing your homestead hydrology!

• Soil Storage - we always start here - soil storage is the cheapest form of storage, especially if you're trying to grow something.
• Ponds & Dams
• Tanks & Cisterns
• Aquifer Storage

 

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Music by Alex Grohl

What was it about Jeremiah’s message that brought him so many enemies? The word of YaHuWaH came to Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah): Yirmeyahuw 2:11-13 Has a nation changed their Elohiym (gods), which are yet no Elohiym (gods)? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says YaHuWaH. For MY PEOPLE have committed two evils; they have forsaken ME the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Our Messiah referred to himself is the one who could give us that living water to drink: Yahuwchanon (John) 4:14 but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Yahuwchanon (John) 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. The United States of America is no different today, as they have forsaken the Creator, the living water, the Messiah whom they claim to worship. See the blog entitled: Jeremiah’s Warning to the United States of America: http://doubleportioninheritance.blogspot.com/2011/05/jeremiahs-warning-to-united-states_17.html Also see the blog entitled: My People Shall Know My Name! http://doubleportioninheritance.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-people-shall-know-my-name.html

Jack Burden from talks about how Raindrops Cisterns is impacting the cistern and water reuse movement, along with the carbon footprint of water, the diverse uses of captured water, and storm water. You can find out more at: www.raindropcisterns.com