Water is becoming such a huge issue here in the states. Rivers that provide irrigation for the farmers, reservoirs at an all time low, the lack of snow pack and the overall quality of our water as we continue to contaminate it with all kinds of waste, has almost reached a point where potable water will be hard to come by.
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So far... in the north east of the US seems like we're getting our usual amount of rain. We are lucky on the "water" side of things, and still have clean spring to drink from where we are. It's going to be tough though for a lot of people I fear!
One of the things we so appreciate here in Upstate NY is the water. We have a well and for precautionary measures we had it tested two years ago. It cost us about $500.00 to have a detailed analysis done and we couldn't be more pleased with the outcome. At the end of the report, the very last line used the word pristine when referring to the quality of the well water. We also have a pond on our property and the deepest section is around 10 feet. You can literally see to the bottom, spotting the fish swimming around.
Everything is so lush here because of the amount of rainfall we get every year.
Ah that's just awesome!!! We may have to make an artificial pond on our property one day and keep it clean with some sort of natural filters if possible.
It's a good thing to spend money on for your well... it's nice to have peace of mind there. Ours needs to be drilled yet, they said it would be approximately 400 feet, so a little pricy! Being at the jottom of the Esopus Creek, we'll need to get it tested too!
400 ft that's deep. When we had our well drilled the drilling company hit water at about 220 feet. Every time they put on another drilling rod, I was Like, there goes another pocket full of money.
Yeah... I'm looking at bags of money here. I'm really thinking about doing rainwater systems only. We could, like you said, New York gets quite a lot of rain. They do it in New Mexico, why couldn't we do it here?