Utilities & Mobile Water Pressure.

A standing supply of water (as in large containers in CR's) is a good suggestion for all in low water pressure areas. That has been a standby of mine for the 20 odd years I have lived in d PI. Water pressure sucks pretty universally all throughout the PI unless you have your own well and water pump or are connected to good city water and use water pump at night to fill your water tank which then uses gravity to feed the house during the daytime. That's my two cents worth anyways...

 

We are 2km up the hill from Valencia. We have a 1500l storage tank, pump and pressure tank to supply the house and we've never run out of water yet. (touch wood).

 

If Only, you see this is another Problem DTGE Water District cut our pump Section Nightly at about 10.30pm until maybe 4.30am

 

Is there a reason why you do not install a water tank for back up supply and pressure? It is so common here that I am actually surprised that a house in your 'value range' does not have it. Seriously, its a good investment for you.

 

Well it certainly is now on the Agenda

 

water pressure? don't you need water to have that. actually, our water line was ''improved'' about 4 months ago and i haven't seen anyone packing water since. we still use the ''no valve, pull and plug method.''

ah.., what plug and pull?
pull and plug works like this; up here. it's a low flow gravity system and there's about 10 households on our ½'' CTS feeder line. if we need water, we go to the feeder line and pull it apart at a snug sleeved connection and plug our line into the wet end end of it. when we have our water, we pull our line out and put the line back together so others can get water. a small pita but it works.
ya know... it's kinda like the no stop sign intersections here, it works!!!

if ya didn't know: CTS is the black plastic water line you see running thru the bushes/coconut trees, it's kinda like some of the noreco tree to tree power lines up here. it works most of the time...

 

It would be interesting to me to have an independent real study done on water loss in the wipes. When I was up in Valencia everywhere I walked or looked I could see leaks and some fairly big leaks. Tell the water guys about it at the Gym up there in Valencia and IF they make it out to *fix* it all they do is wrap some rubber around it and hope it holds. Down in Dumaguete plenty of the same thing as well.

Odd in that most of these *bottled water suppliers* are on the same city line and using suction pumps to suck up as much as the water as they can to *filter* it and bottle it. Some of the bottled water I have gotten I'd swear it tastes just like tap water at home. I also remember when I lived in Pulantubig not far from St. Paul University one house selling bottled water had their gate open and what it looked like is that the water was straight out of a city line connected to their house.

 

On the inlet to my meter there is a strainer/screen.
Twice it has been clogged by sand and grass/other organic matter.
JP if your neighbors pressure is okay then you might want to check that out.