How to build a rain barrel watering system for a cabin?
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I've been planning on making one of my own and have been holding on to this tutorial from Instructibles for when I'm ready to tackle it. https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-rain-barrel-1/
Rain barrels are not for drinking water, but for the grey or black water..systems.grey water would be sink and bath water, black water is sewer water. You will need a certain type of filter system to get drinking water from the rain barrel.
you can connect multiple rain barrels with pvc pipe and a water tap. A fine screen mesh over the collection barrels. Keeps the insects and kids out of them. This old house web site, instructables....or just google rain water harvesting.
First you would need gutters on your cabin roof with a downspout you can add a rain barrel or two.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2qoLtvTYN0
I bought a big one at home depot for $75. It includes an adapter kit to connect it to a gutter downspout. It also has a spigot and a plug at the bottom to drain out all the water. It works great.