Living Simply Can Kill You

yep. but in a pinch making charcoal isnt to hard. granted charcoal you make yourself wont last as long as the modern activated stuff (like in a brita) but while it works, it works fine.

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I have a high desert arid mountainous climate. Working towards self sufficiency. The potentials of plant breeding and building micro climates amaze me. We must learn to ride the wave.

Living a much simpler life from 1800 to 1900, there lived a man who is a documented centaurian who lived in the times where it was truly simple. Our relative was a tough man who died from Gangrene of the foot. At 100 years old, he proves that a simple life can be lived and for a long time! Imagine if he had gotten medical care??? We have another relative we knew personally who lived a long time. Our Great Grandfather was a Kansas Farmer who lived right up to his 98th birthday and died in his sleep peacefully. He ate fried pork rinds for breakfast, all those farm foods they warn us to eat in moderation, and worked hard til he had to slow down. He never had a surgery his entire life and dug his own well. I do not think the water quality could have been pristine but I think that a simpler life can be lived longer...

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Romy "Island Girl"
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Remember one of Will Rogers' sayings when it comes to water. "Always drink upstream from the herd." Water from any source is only as good as where it comes from before it gets to you. At first in-laws farm, water was from a dug well which had a submerged pump. For about a week, there was a foul taste. We took the cover off and I shined a light down and saw something floating in it. Used an egg basket on a rope to try to get under it and bring it up. Only had bits of what had been a cat that went missing a few weeks before. My father-in-law lost his dinner immediately! Drilling a proper well commenced the following day.

Martin

Thanks . . . I needed some comic relief . . . . . .

, , a CAT WELL. . . . . . .

very hi tech.........LOL

We live near a lovely little creek... 1/2 mile upstream, we have a herd of 50 horses who have access as their sole water source.

We'll be installing a hand pump here, for when the electric fails.

Local Hero: Hawaii's Guru of Water Catchment- Trisha Macomber
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/RM-12.pdf

University of Hawaii - Guidelines on Rainwater Catchment Systems for Hawaii.

There are so many people in this state who use catchment as their only source of water that the University put out a guideline on how to do it properly. You might find useful advice for your area.

Awesome...thanks so much for sharing Hotzcatz!

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He might not have been so lucky with medical care! He would have gone to the hospital, been treated with multiple antibiotics, becoming resistant to many of them, getting sicker, gotten multiple lines (all entry points for additional infections), had the gangrene part amputated, eventually end up on a ventilator, and finally allowed to die when someone in the family had the guts to say enough is enough.

I'm kind of saying this with tongue in cheek because I've been in the medical profession all my working life, but modern medicine doesn't necessarily trump the old days/ways in all respects.

Water catchment in our case involves rain barrels at as many downspouts as possible. We use the water for watering only. Even when I was a kid we used rainwater for watering and hair washing (nothing like it!).

When we lived on an island Light House station we had a big cistrin in the basement of the house. Rain water is all we had besides ocean water all around us. Rain water collected passed through a filtration system to the cistrin. We boiled our drinking and cooking water. We added just a little bleach to the cistrin periodically too.We were never sick from using this water.
Off the island we have always had a well. The old well we pumped out and washed with bleach. When the water table came up we used the water for the animals. In a dry year we used the water for cooking and drinking when the shallower well went dry. We never got sick from any water used; rain or well water.

Driven wells work good where the water table is close to the surface.

As silverseeds has said, in most parts of New Mexico, you have to drill much deeper. I am blessed, my well is only 180' deep. There are places within 50 miles of me that have 800-900 dry holes!

Not too concerned about chemicl contaminants, only been ranching out here, and I have Nat'l forest on 3 sides.

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All our pain and all our tears will be no more.....

Rain water, what's that?! We live in the high desert.

Do your research and build up your immune system. Doesn't matter if we're talking about water or food here.

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Amish family we bought our homestead from used city water to wash clothes, water stock, etc, but the drinking water (water for consumption) came from rain water collected off the house's metal roof and stored in two of the huge round water storage units that farmers use for drought conditions. They thought city water was full of too many chemical not to mention fluoride for human consumption. Can't argue that point but the little kids teeth were terrible.

When I asked them how they handled contaminates in the water they took me inside and showed me their water filter.

So much for shunning modern technology.

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