I’ve been thinking a bit ahead this morning, about what things may look like a year or two down the road. The Anne Marie will be outfitted with an incredible water filtration system, so that if need be I could fill up my tanks from a stagnant puddle and still have cleaner water than what comes out of a municipal tap. But I’d rather get cleaner water from the start, and I’ve been looking to rainwater collection.
Collecting runoff from the bus isn’t particularly easy, at least if I want to keep it mobile, so I’ve been considering other options. One method is a collapsible catchment system. It turns out that one inch of rainfall is about 0.6 gallons per square foot, which means a 10′ x 10′ structure is just about enough to fill a 55 gallon barrel with only an inch of precipitation. I’m sure a 10′ x 10′ canopy could be easily inverted to make this extremely simple to construct, and compact to store.