The problem is, if I was doing the same thing as you, I could not afford the copper - so I would likely have to do something else. You can make clay pipes (obviously not to plump your home lol), to pipe from a natural water source to your home - they are not that hard to make, and they last a long time - people in some places are still using the ones made by the Romans. Here is one of my favorite doco series talking about clay pipes in the 50s: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnlzf8 - I used to work with clay alot, and although clay pipes are not as robust as plastic / copper - it is a cheaper / natural alternative that everyone has forgotten about - considering you can just look around for clay and it dig it out yourself. The best thing about clay is its not toxic, in fact, some people even eat a bit of it a day for their minerals.
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You are exactly correct. Frankly, I'd prefer to use ceramic pipe because it is completely inert and lasts for thousands of years, as you point out. If someone was to make sections of such pipe commercially available, as plastic, copper, and steel pipes are, I bet there'd be a market for it.