A six million dollar question here in the Land of the Smiles.
Which authority do you think might have the money and authority, to sign off on the installation of of mains local government water, to ones road, in the event they thought it warranted?

Depends entirely on the location, city,town, village etc

I paid a 50K to PWA to get water to our door. 

 

 

On 8/2/2025 at 3:54 PM, Peter Crow said:

I paid a 50K to PWA to get water to our door. 

 

 

Think we paid around 38k for literally 50-70m to connect. Most of the cost is them cutting the channel to put the pipe in I'm guessing , but we did get half the amount back as house further down wanted to connect to the supply and offered us half of what we paid to connect to our pipe .

For less than 50 k i had a 4" 70m  deep well drilled and put in a completely automatic solar system with a high flow rate stainless steel filter ( including appropriate media ) into a buffer tank and constant pressure water pump send.

 

All own labour except drilling of bore.

 

Highly recommend, if no land constraints.

On 8/2/2025 at 3:26 PM, John Smith 777 said:

A six million dollar question here in the Land of the Smiles.
Which authority do you think might have the money and authority, to sign off on the installation of of mains local government water, to ones road, in the event they thought it warranted?

 

At a loss your subject seems different than your question 

3 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

 

At a loss your subject seems different than your question 

The latest hotel construction has dried up our water. Their wells are now depleting the access to our own.

The potential remedy would be a Government mains water supply installed in our Soi, which is in fact a main one.

1 hour ago, John Smith 777 said:

The latest hotel construction has dried up our water. Their wells are now depleting the access to our own.

The potential remedy would be a Government mains water supply installed in our Soi, which is in fact a main one.

OH Okay, now I see, sorry.  The challenge is how long will it take for the government to take action.

21 hours ago, Pla Simon said:

For less than 50 k i had a 4" 70m  deep well drilled and put in a completely automatic solar system with a high flow rate stainless steel filter ( including appropriate media ) into a buffer tank and constant pressure water pump send.

 

All own labour except drilling of bore.

 

Highly recommend, if no land constraints.

 

 

What pump did you use and how high will it pump the water using a 4" bore or is the bore pumping the water smaller than that?

On 8/6/2025 at 11:14 AM, chockchai12 said:

 

 

What pump did you use and how high will it pump the water using a 4" bore or is the bore pumping the water smaller than that?

 

Hi man - 6" bore, with ( staggered, scored from 12m )  4" pipework all the way down from surface - with small, natural sandstone poured between 6" and 4" cavity to surface ( to filter and prevent well collapse at depth ). Then a submersible wellpump attached to 1.25 inch pipe, rope and cable all the way down to around 60m, to allow for further extention, if needed.

 

Not dried up yet, after 1 Year and extreme dry season.

 

I would have to dig out the pump Rating - but it quite happily sends 60m up, reduces to 1", then another 25m underground through a fliter and up around 4m to a holding tank. Worth noting, if waiting until around midday,  there's enough pressure to backwash the filter effectively when needed.

 

I'll try to convert photos to send - got 3 solar panels @ 330w each.

The filter is rated at around 1000L/Hr - water is slightly acidic, so use activated carbon to balance ph.

 

Buffer tank is 1500 L - with solar pump active from 8am onwards - enough for house and 1 rai of trees in hot season, and a full tank for evening use - everyday.

 

I put it in after inconsistant, dirty village water supply dried up, no city water here.

 

 

On 8/6/2025 at 11:14 AM, chockchai12 said:

 

 

What pump did you use and how high will it pump the water using a 4" bore or is the bore pumping the water smaller than that?

 

Can't find the manual.

Just found the crate i composted -