Mother Earth News had a great article that asked the reader if they could survive without electricity or WATER. It made me think. I guess I could do without :gasp: internet but not having water is a different story.
Electric and water.....
I was born in Texas and we did not have electric, for water we went to the windmill, chased the cows away and dipped a bucket in the large watering tank.
When we moved to Arizona, we did get electric, but did not have a well for several years.
In the beginning, any thing that held a quart of water, was filled a the stand pipe at the Irrigation district.
In time we got larger containers and in time a 500 gallon tank on a trailer, a 2,000 gallon storage tank and had lots of water, when we hauled it.
The tanks were for the animals and livestock, we still hauled in whatever held water for the house.
You learn to do odd things and reuse water, I simply will not rinse dishes under running water.
My bathtub leaks and I have a big bowl, at least 3 gallon size that collects the water and it upsets my sister when she comes and I want that water used for the cats, she only knows of water in the spigot.... She was born in California.
It has been so cold here, that I have been running the faucets at night, as I have old pipes and they freeze and bust.
So I am filling all the empty coffee containers, the large ones hold almost a garden, I will have water that might need boiled if our local water company goes down, as it has in the past and I am going to put it where the sun hits it and set plants on them...
LOL, I live alone, so if I want to stack them to the ceiling, no one can complain.
My kitchen sink drains on trees, the bathtub onto the front yard and I have a giant mulberry tree there to break the southern sun.
When I could still do the laundry, it drained on a native tree and I had planted bamboo there.
Old habits, but not willing to drop them.