The Water Projects Manual: Practical Engineering for Water Sources, Wells, Pumps, Pipelines, Storage, Treatment, Distribution, and Field Operations

More than forty-three million Americans, roughly one person in seven, drink water from a private well. Federal drinking-water law does not regulate a single one of them.

No agency samples that water. No utility mails a report. The owner tests it, or nobody does. The same is true of the septic tank under the lawn, the storage tank in the crawl space, and the pressure switch clicking away in the basement.
That is the gap this manual was written to close.

Two hundred and sixteen pages across eighteen chapters cover a single property’s entire water infrastructure: groundwater and well types, pumps and pressure systems, well maintenance and shock chlorination, pipe materials and fittings, tanks and cisterns, rainwater harvesting, treatment and filtration, laboratory testing, household plumbing, irrigation, greywater reuse, septic systems, emergency repairs, permits, and a seasonal calendar.

It is a reference first. Key terms are defined where they matter, checklists are written to be worked from, a plain-language glossary sits at the back, and the index is built to the page rather than the chapter.

What the coverage includes

• The three well types, static water level, drawdown, and what each one tells you

• Jet and submersible pumps, pressure tanks, and the switch settings of a healthy system

• The four pipe materials you will actually meet, how each is joined, and why mixing them causes leaks

• Treatment trains matched to problems: sediment, softening, carbon, iron and sulfur, ultraviolet, reverse osmosis

• What to test for, how often, how to choose a lab, and how to read the result

• Septic tank layers, failure signs, pumping intervals, and the licensed boundary

• Burst pipes, sudden pressure loss, boil-water advisories, and a well after a flood
  
  

For homeowners, property buyers, smallholders and caretakers who want one dependable shelf reference for water on their land rather than a stack of single-subject books.

Nobody else is testing your water or watching your pressure. This manual is written so that you can.