Water demand garden/year --> Is a cistern worthwhile?

When everything has grown in and been mulched properly, it needs less water without looking unkempt. But I don't believe 1000 liters will be enough. Many things here are also only in their second year. We'll see. The old apple tree needed water last year. Otherwise, in our private jungle, a perennial died in the last two years.

And there has been a water shortage here for years. At my aunt's place, there has been a watering and irrigation ban since March 2019.

If rainwater is used, it should be generously sized. Weeks without rain, then heavy rain again. A small water dish fills up and is empty again immediately.

76,000 liters

May I ask how large your property is? That is an excavation of 20 x 2 x 2 meters. Depending on the proportions, of course.

The cistern also looks like a submarine. Just take a look in the thread of . Worth seeing.

I am currently also dealing with the topic. My parents had a cistern including a water pump installed in 2010 for flushing the toilets in their new building. They are quite satisfied with it, but it is only 4000 liters in size and accordingly already completely ran dry during long dry periods, even this year. We are about to build new as well, and I find the idea of installing such a cistern (without a water pump and toilet flushing) very attractive from an ecological point of view. I simply have a better feeling using rainwater for the garden. However, our plot is only 550m2 in total, so the consideration of whether it is worthwhile probably doesn't apply from the outset. Nevertheless, I haven't quite finished thinking about it and need to get some information. The IBC containers mentioned here sound like an alternative to me. However, I would be interested in where and how you have placed them? Because aesthetics are something else, if you know what I mean . How can they be well "hidden"?

Hiding will probably be difficult with 550sqm. But you can also disguise them, maybe that is a possible option?

What I wonder, since I am, as I said, still quite at the beginning of dealing with this topic, is... can you connect such a cistern to the outdoor water tap of the new house without major problems? An outdoor water tap is planned, but without a separate cistern or domestic water system! I would really prefer to take the water directly from the outdoor water tap and when the cistern is empty, then from the tap water...