Takes up more room than I'd like, but we are self-sufficient for water.

It is, takes up a lot of room. But it needs to be, South Australia is the driest state, on the driest continent. In droughts we go months without any rain. Also free water.

We don't go overboard. We have a twin filter system after the pump at the tank, 5 micron silver carbon filter for the last stage. Frogs and tadpoles live in the tank 😂, so it's already relatively clean.

That sucks and always a danger these days.

One more way to separate yourself from the systems of control, water sovereignty.