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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Water Crisis Coming Soon
  • Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:45:44 -0700


On Nov 8, 2008, at 7:04 AM, bob ford wrote:

This subject has been discussed a few times on the list. It is something about which I am almost paranoid, like privacy issues. This woman being interviewed has her own political leanings and agaendae, which are, to me, beside the point.

For rural or urban homesteading, in general clean water is important not just for survival but for the indepependence and self- sufficiency that most of us seek.

Concepts like 'man-made global warming' are hard for me to grasp, . . . .

There is no practical need to understand man-made global warming, Peak Oil, or water control by Pickens or anyone else, beyond land proximity to controlled water. If big business could bottle air and sunshine, they would. Expect all of it and be prepared.

I have talked about the importance of abundant homestead water for as long as I can remember. It is the one item without which homesteading is made multiple times more difficult.

Expect change. Expect higher and lower temperatures. Expect drought. Expect floods. Expect higher prices on anything that can be controlled.

Find a place where you can handle all of it. Then develop multiple systems. For instance, water can come from wells deep or shallow, streams, springs, rain-water collection systems; the more of these systems you have the less vulnerable you will be.




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