We're thinking of building a home / holiday bach in a remote location and one of the issues we would face is water. If it doesn't rain, we don't get any and we either need to be near a ready source (a river / stream) or have it delivered by a truck to a large tank.
I don't really want to do any of that. I'm not a fan of roof water anyway...as I know too many people in the Horowhenua / Manawatu who died of bowel cancer.....maybe after drinking spray drift of all kinds for years.....delivered via their roof to their water tanks.
I'm looking at atmospheric water generators. For example, the "Skywater 500 Alternative Energy" unit. It can produce (approximately) 378L of water / day under ideal conditions, but even half that would be acceptable most of the time. We would use some and store the rest. After a days or few weeks we would have a large reserve of clean water in a tank for all usual uses: cooking, drinking and some washing.
This particular unit uses about 4.2kw of power and that would require a fair amount of solar or wind energy.....in addition to other requirements.....but it would be do-able.
Ideally, I would have two smaller units so if one breaks down I'm not left with no water at all. There are other units ("WaterMicronWorld", Konia") but no one in NZ seems to sell them, Not that I can find.
A unit that can produce 1,100 gallons (3,800-ish litres) is about US$32,000....and would be far more than we needed it.
This setup may be a lot more expensive than a truck delivering water.....but it would mean I don't need to rely on a truck delivering water (with e-coli or whatever else in it).
Anyone know of anyone in NZ doing this? In India it's rapidly becoming an important source of water as climate change dries up the rivers in many areas.