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a) Indirect system
The most common household system is the indirect stored-water system. This works
from a mains supply from the company stopcock outside, which enters the house
underground and usually surfaces near the kitchen sink. It supplies fresh drinking water
under mains pressure, then travels via rising main pipework to a large water tank in the
loft space. This tank basically supplies all your water requirements other than fresh
drinking water: usually a basins, baths, toilets and showers.
