When I was a kid, we had a windmill that pumped to fill a cistern near the house. The house had a pump that drew water from the cistern and charged up a pressure tank for drinking & toilets. Water would gravity feed down to the barn to water the livestock.
Every 3 days or so have to go down to the pasture & crank the windmill tail control, to let it in the wind & to pump for 4 hours or so. This would fill the cistern.
Rainwater was collected from the house & put in a, oh I never measured, 8x20x8 foot cistern room in the basement. A different pump would charge up the softwater pressure tank, and so that would be the hot & wash water in the house.
Basically the only thing that has changed is the windmill and hard water pump has been replaced with a deep well & pump in the well to feed the house. Every 3 days or so, I need to turn a valve in the basement to fill the cistern from the deep well. The cistern only gravity feeds the barn now.
Pretty nice tho, power goes out or well has issues, and I still have a cistern of water for the critters to use. It is a very low pressure system, so need to have the proper type of float valves and etc to work with only 5lbs of water.
I still don't have a water softener, still use the rainwater & basement cistern for the hot water in the house. So, the house is still fed from 2 water sources; the deep well, and the rainwater system. There are 3 pipes running to several areas - one well/drinking water pipe, and a hot & cold softwater pipe.
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