A system that is even easier to design and set-up is a garden watering system because not all houses were designed to build on in an off-grid manner. If you don’t have a functioning rain barrel they’re pretty easy to make, you can even use a heavy-duty 5-gallon bucket. The platform should be somewhere between 7-9 feet high in order to get a good pull. If you don’t have an above shower platform, no worries, you can build or buy one. ![]() The house I lived in was designed for off-grid living so there was a platform built directly above the shower for this specific purpose. I installed a barrel above the shower in order to use gravity to allow me a running shower. What I did was used a solar pump to draw my water up from the spring-fed cistern into my water barrel upstairs. Now, the system I installed for my shower didn’t pull water from a creek or anything. This is one of the most basic and easy of all to do so I figured it would be a great place to start for beginners. My first gravity system project consisted of an off-grid shower system for my house. ![]() You can use this system to provide water to your shower, gardens, animal barns, and even your whole house if you have it set up properly. The gravity fed water system is used to pull the water from springs, streams, creeks, rain barrels, and rivers upstream or uphill from the water source.
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