Low Cost Cistern

This is how Abe at Vela Creations.com recommends building a low cost cistern with an HDPE cistern liner.
This is how Abe at Vela Creations.com recommends building a low cost cistern with an HDPE cistern liner.

“A cistern liner is a flexible membrane, sometimes called a geomembrane. You can get them in PVC or EPDM.

Here’s a link to where we get our potable liners:
http://www.websweeper.com/liner/tank-liner/prices.php

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Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators

Gotta love the Internet as a bottomless source of incredible ideas. Today’s post is about the ancient ice storage structures in Persia. You can find this and many more articles about traditional earth building at Earth Architecture. “By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in … Read more

Earthbag Cisterns

Since water is vital to life, and there is increasing scarcity of clean drinking water in much of the world, it makes sense to store this precious resource and use it wisely. Earthbags in combination with ferrocement offer a number of interesting alternatives for storing water. Three different methods are shown below. www.flickr.com/photos/10349013@N02/2798383930 www.flickr.com/photos/11222150@N02/1082496465 http://earthbagplans.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/earthbag-cistern/