[AT] Springtime in Sask?

[Larry Goss]

I suspect that more people haul water for drinking across rural America than we realize. A system with two or three different sources of water is not uncommon.  More than once, I have seen potable water listed as a limiting factor for development world-wide.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011 15:41
Subject: Re: [AT] Springtime in Sask?
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Springtime in Sask?
> 
> 
> > Ralph did I understand that you were hauling drinking 
> water?   Is water
> > scarce enough or two deep or what is the reason you don't or 
> can't have 
> > your
> > own water well?   What do you do for washing and 
> livestock water?
> >
> > Thanks for the video.  That was great.   As 
> much as I dislike cold 
> > something
> > really appeals to me about the way you live up there.  I 
> guess it reminds 
> > me
> > of the pace of life I knew as a child.
> >
> 
> Charlie,/Joe, I'm glad you found the video of some interest. Its 
> a bit 
> "ironic" that I sit on top of a huge aquifer that could supply a 
> small 
> village with water and its only about 40 feet below the surface. 
> Unfortunately  my well water is so hard and mineral laden 
> that it is 
> undrinkable unless you have a cast iron stomach. Expensive water 
> treatment 
> systems could probably render it quite drinkable but I'm used to 
> trucking 
> drinking water and its no great hardship considering I don't 
> have to do it 
> very often. That community well I haul from has some of the best 
> water 
> you'll ever find. Straight out of the ground with no iron taste 
> or heavy 
> mineral load. Its a rare thing in this part of Sask.
> My well is adequate for all other farm uses except washing. For 
> that I have 
> a cistern that catches rain water off the house roof and you 
> would have a 
> hard time finding softer water than that. No need to constantly 
> buy bags of 
> softener salt and my water heater is about 45 years old so that 
> says 
> something about water hardness.
> I've put down a few more details of how it used to be in my 
> grandfather's 
> day on a blog at
> http://mindlessramblings-rlg.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunny-day-in-
> january.html
> Ralph in Sask.
> 
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