The Home Water Supply: How to Find, Filter, Store, and Conserve It (Paperback)

by Stu Campbell (Author) "We are water..." (more)
Key Phrases: snifter valve, sixty psi, twenty psi, United States, New York, Domestic Water Treatment (more...)

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Product Description
Knowledgeable discussion of home water systems, potential water problems, and practical, money-saving solutions.

From the Back Cover
If you live in the country or suburbs, you've had, are having, or will have water problems.

What's yours? Not enough water? Too much? Tastes terrible? The pump quits? The water's contaminated?

No matter what it is, author Stu Campbell addresses it in this book, and offers down-to-earth solutions in language understandable to all of us who aren't plumbers.

Campbell had coped with water problems in both the East and the West, from the many-state shortages of the West to a cantankerous pump in Vermont. And he's probed the minds of experts -- dowsers, well diggers, plumbers, electricians, and those who know about the flow of water deep underground.

In a friendly, knowledgeable manner, Campbell discusses your difficulties. He provides concrete and money-saving answers to questions that range from locating water to digging a pond to hooking up the plumbing in your home. You'll know when to try something yourself, when to call a plumber or other expert. You'll learn
-- How to find water.
-- How to move it.
-- How to purify it.
-- And how to store and distribute it in your home.

Bob Vogel's illustrations take much of the mystery out of things as the underground flow of water and how pumps and other water-linked equipment operate.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 10, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882663240
• ISBN-13: 978-0882663241
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #132,676 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great source for home water system design and storage., January 25, 2001

By	Clinton J. Fisher "dreamer122" (United States) - See all my reviews

This book covers nearly every situation one may encounter in water procurement, perhaps the only subject not covered is hauling water to a completely dry site.

The focus of this book is necessarily on shallow wells, as deep wells require professional drilling, never the less the author covers well pumps, casing, storage devices and filtration systems with enough technical detail to meet most needs. Deep wells and methods are covered, just not in detail.

If you need to know how to identify and correct contamination you'll find it here. Need to compute water needs? Pump and storage specifications? Those are also here. In fact, you'll be pleased with the technical details and comparisons in an easy to read style.

I must have missed the new age stuff or at least forgot it as I read the whole book.

If you want to find water in a rural area, and develop it yourself, this is the book. I would not recommend "Cottage Water Systems" if you want detail on well systems.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, practical, and fun to read., September 10, 1998

By A Customer

Covers everything from finding water to getting it to treating it and controlling it. Describes ponds, catchments (roofs and paved areas), wells of several different kinds, springs, and running water.

33 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lacks Basic Data, August 1, 2002

By	"bduggan4" (Point Arena, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This book doesn't contain the data needed for developing even a simple design for a home water system. For example, there is no data to calculate friction loss from water moving through pipes. The book notes that friction loss is easy to calculate using a table. The book includes a table that lists friction loss for valves and fittings in equivalent length of pipe. But, I can't find a table on friction loss per length of pipe. A third of the book and most of the bibliography is devoted to the author's opinions on water politics, he is no Marc Reisner.