Shibui
Imperial Masterpiece
We are away from reticulated town water so we put a bore (well) in when we moved here. The hole is 90m deep because the drillers were hoping to come to a better supply down deep (and I was paying by the metre) but the water table sits at around 6 m below ground level. It will supply around 10 litres per minute, equivalent to a single garden hose which is not enough to manage direct from the bore so the submersible pump in the bore pumps water to a storage tank on the hill so we have 50,000 litres available. There's just enough head to run most garden sprinklers by gravity but I have had to put in a pressure pump to make the microsprays work properly in the nursery.
We get through around 10.000 litres a day when it is hot.
The initial cost was high but now no water bills except electricity to run the pumps and no water restrictions during droughts. fingers crossed that the ground water supply we have tapped into will continue to supply adequate water. So far it has always been good.
There's no way we could manage a house, garden and nursery on just rain water and there is no other surface water here.
We get through around 10.000 litres a day when it is hot.
The initial cost was high but now no water bills except electricity to run the pumps and no water restrictions during droughts. fingers crossed that the ground water supply we have tapped into will continue to supply adequate water. So far it has always been good.
There's no way we could manage a house, garden and nursery on just rain water and there is no other surface water here.