Home Water storage and filtration consultants?

Posted by Tairc@reddit | preppers | View on Reddit | 11 comments

I’m building my little urban prepper heaven, and one thing I haven’t specced yet is water storage and filtration. I’ve seen Caribbean countries where most homes have 1000+ gallons of storage in large tanks outside, fed by municipal water, but when that goes out, you flip a valve to isolate your tank from the municipal supply and can go for quite a long time.

I’d like to build something similar. There are even better ways with multi tank solutions, where the system uses one tank, while filling another from municipal water - so that if the municipal water is contaminated, you isolate out the “fill” tank, and just use the ones filled earlier that are presumed safe.

Other systems catch and use rainwater, then filter that well enough that you can’t tell it’s not clean municipal water.

I’ve got a couple of grand to throw at the problem, but don’t know what’s reliable, trustworthy, cost effective and more.

Does anyone know of any consulting firms or people that might be able to do a few hour consult? Once they got me a BoM and design, I could source it, and work with a plumber to install it.

So - any ideas? I’m in North Carolina, but the consultant can likely be most anywhere in the US.