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["Gloria Morris" <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com>]

On 2/7/07, Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com> wrote:
> If only our stream ran in summer!  My partner informed me that he would
> not even so much as bathe in surface water, so with no need to water
> very many plants in winter, that plan sort of died.

Just as a little food for thought, some folks live solely on surface
water. I knew a family that lived on a small farm. They did not have a
well. Instead, they had two ponds. One pond ran into the other pond.
The first pond acted as a sort of sediment filter. The second pond was
their water source. They used the water for everything. They had a UV
filter for bacteria. They had other filters as well, but I cannot
recall now the makeup of their system. But they seemed quite healthy,
and their water coming out of the tap was clean - certainly not as
gross as a lot of city tap water I've encountered! So if push ever
comes to shove, it is a water source you could utilize.

Gloria