Rainwater Collection?

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I am definitely thinking only for the backyard and maybe the front landscaping we are about to do. The landscaping is all going to be drought tolerant so no a huge water requirement. The whole lot is 50X150 and we have a driveway plus 1630 sq ft house on it, so this isn't a big yard. The backyard already has a storage shed taking up about 11X11, then we are planting a screen/shrub bed along the back fence which can be hand or drip watered once established (again drought tolerant) and finally at some point we will be building a large pergola style patio most of the length of our house. I think in a year or two we are looking at 50X50 max of grass in the back.

My husband's brother and step father are plumbers, I think they could help us devise some sort of crude pump system? I know his stepdad did it for his own garden, has irrigation and such. Plus did some sort of set up from his own well. Hmmmm...

Definitely not for drinking, that is too much $$$$. Even though my drinking water is very hard and tastes like dirt.