# Automatic vehicle water collection/purifier system

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [February 22, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968 "2015-02-22T18:39:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![no\_zed\_is\_safe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@no\_zed\_is\_safe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/no_zed_is_safe)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968/1 "2015-02-22T18:39:02Z")

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Basically something made out of a funnel, water purifier and some sheet metal you ould slap on to your vehicle. During rain, you could activate it to have it auto-purify rainwater and send it to the vehicle’s water tank (maybe make it automatically shut down once the tank is full). Obviously it would drain some vehicle battery power.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968/2 "2015-02-22T19:06:22Z")

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Been considered before; in practice the collection rate might be a bit slow but including the purifier makes it not _completely_ out of the question.

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**Author:** ![no\_zed\_is\_safe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@no\_zed\_is\_safe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/no_zed_is_safe)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968/3 "2015-02-22T20:33:04Z")

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I’ll take a slow collection rate over the tedious chore of hauling and boiling water, personally.

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968/4 "2015-02-22T20:42:44Z")

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well i use the foodco to purify the contains of a steel barrel in one go and dump the whole stuff into the vehicles watertank eZ . Interesting idea anyway.

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**Author:** ![Coolthulhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/coolthulhu/32/2446_2.png) [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968/5 "2015-02-23T01:16:58Z")

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I have a vehicle liquid tank system rework waiting for 0.C to come out.

Once it’s in, writing a continuous purifier (ie. one that takes 1 unit of “water” and outputs 1 unit of “clean water” every x turns) would be really easy.

Or someone can just hack in a temporary solution: a purifier+funnel combo that is placed on the roof.

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**Author:** ![dRbiG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/drbig/32/1186_2.png) [@dRbiG](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dRbiG)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/automatic-vehicle-water-collection-purifier-system/8968/6 "2015-03-03T09:32:18Z")

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Had exactly this same idea last year. I even wanted it to be my first CDDA code contribution… but looking how funnel was actually an item+trap+abstract\_code\_in\_the\_weather\_module I gave up. I still think this kind of contraption is a conceptually a good idea. If the FOODCO can do water purification, I don’t see why a roof funnel couldn’t too.