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I'll just distill saltwater in my still.

We started clearing all the Ashe juniper off the ranch last year. Almost 1/2 done. Spring are starting up again. When we get the highlands done in the back pasture there are several old springs back there that might just start up again.

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I've got a tile line that empties in my yard. I'll drink from that until I die of the carcinogens.

Several free-running springs in ther area, plus I've got a 300+ ft. well that's been keeping us supplied for over 40 years. The water comet to within 30 feet of the surface if it's not pumped for a few hours. Back before we got the submersible pump installed and plumbed the house, my son called hoisting up a 6 foot bailer and emptying it into a 5 gallon plastic bucket "running water" when he brought it into the house.

I have a sump pump pit in the basement. The water gets filtered around the house and ends up in the sump pump pit. The water is pretty clear but some chlorine bleach or boiling should get rid of the bad stuff. Unfortunately, I am 47 miles from the well at the farm. It's a 2 foot drop from the top of the well to the water.

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The river in the back has plenty.

I can hit water at 7-8ft with my back hoe here against the limestone bluffs on our place.

We have two wells.

Several surface springs and a year round stream with crawdads and minnows. Clear limestone bottoms on the creek here and for now, no nasty bovines up the hollow.

It's great having a ho

i drink beer so i'm good.

+1. If there’s no beer, I’d rather not survive the SHTF

Left mine in my other pants.

Hell, the Shenandoah is only 15 minutes away. I can take a bath while my Sawyers filters out water for my coffee.

We got a well, a stock tank, and a still.

LMAO

Have a good spring 100 yards or so behind the house. It’s never went dry. Probably flows 40 to 50 gallon a minute.
It comes out on a big flat rock and there’s a hole that was chiseled in there at some point that is just big enough to scoop a five gallon bucket into.
There’s an old road runs beside it.
An old guy told us people used to stop and get water there when he was a kid back in the thirties. He told us about the hole.
We had always kept the spring cleaned out but after talking to him we started digging and probing around on that big flat rock and found a little depression the size of a cereal bowl.
We kept at it and an hour later had cleaned out a huge “dipping” hole.
This was around 86’ or so.
Over 40 years time and the gravel and clay had packed in there and if the old timer hadn’t told us about it we would have never known it was there.

Reservoir is 1/4 mile away. No bailing required.

My brother in Atlanta has a swimming pool. To begin with, Atlanta would be a real bad place to be in a survival situation. Talk about some bad guys with guns that want to come to your neighborhood and take your stuff. One reason I don't live there any more.

But, right now he has a cover on it, so no dead bugs or birds in the water. Certainly you could use that water to flush the toilet, and you could cook with it. I guess you could drink it, it has chlorine in it. Might have to let set overnight to let the chlorine dissipate.

??? good question. Lake I suppose. Don't have a well. We do loose water whenever the electwicity goes out.

Bonanza! A massive spring 100 yards from the house. You can't beat that.