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Water - The Great Mystery
Topic Started: May 19 2012, 12:01 PM (392 Views)
HandFarming
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A full length youtube video on something we all take for granted.

Water - the Great Mystery and Shared by All Life Forms:



Kinda makes ya think!
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Thanks for the link, HF. I am convinced that in a post-SHTF situ, people in urban areas are going to be in a panic when they realize the tap doesn't work anymore! I have been trying to find out how the water supply in this town gets to us - I know that it comes from an aquifer, but I can't get anyone to tell me if its pumped up with electricity or if its some sort of siphon system that doesn't rely on electricity. Have to do some research.
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I finally talked to a guy that worked for the City; according to him, we have a gravity feed system that gets the water up from underground with electric pumps - BIG ones! Another guy I talked to gestimates that, if the pumps stopped working, we'd have enough water for about 2 days, that is if everyone conserved and didn't do stupid stuff like water lawns. He said he thought there are back-up gas powered generators that would give us another 2-3 days, but he wasn't positive. But, I think that would make sense, since many events could trigger an electicity problem. So, my plan, as soon as it gets dicey, is to fill every container I can find with water. I do have a big plastic barrel and I am going to try to find another one. I realize that isn't a great long-term plan, but I'd bet in a SHTF situ, getting the water back on would be priority number one.
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We are having enough of time with our water. After seeing that video, I'm with Raven and NO microwave -ever again.

No rain this weekend means we should be thinking about adding to our water system. Using our well pump could tax our system and since we have a ethanol plant on our aquafier, 5 miles away and they use water like crazy, we think our well water occationally is off/on. B talked about using some dc pumps on solar panels from the creek to the main garden tank. Then catch the rain water for the gardens and animals nearer the buildings.

Been reading that the fields south of us are hurting for water worse than us. East of us isn't looking so good either.

Either way, after seeing the video on how water has memory, form and is sensitive to energy, I'm taking a different approach to it.
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Guess some one took down the link.
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I've been gradually stocking up on bottled water when ever I find it on sale. I know it's not expensive anyway but Menard's had cases for $2.50 and if things start drying up, the price of bottled water may look like gas prices. It would be a good thing to have a stock pile of. Conserving water would be a great idea to get in the habit of but when you have those ethanol plants wasting millions of gallons a day it seems kind of useless. Can't believe it's May and we're already watering the garden.
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I was looking at a draught map of Minnesota and the southeast corner looks like its still in the "danger" zone. We seem to have kind of caught up with the precipitation averages and our lakes and streams are higher than they were last year - which is great news. I agree with Grizzly, bottled water is a very necessary, and very inexpensive commodity to store.

HF - I just checked the water video and I can still play it. It was kind of long, but you're right, quite interesting information. As for microwaves - I LOVE mine and use it alot. I am careful to not use anything in it but containers approved for microwaves - that means no cottage cheese or pudding containers and none of the cheapie plastic food storage containers, etiher.
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The microwave thing isn't all about the container although that is a part of it. It is what the microwave does to the contents of the container. At any rate it is a hard thing for people to give up once they are used to it.
The weather here is scary dry. Our dirt is like cement and the dust is awful. The next chance of rain is thursday. The last two rains gave us nothing...went right around us. I talked to someone about the water system in the little town near us and if an EMP hits there is no water. If the generator is used they have several days worth of fuel to fill the tank and a "mandatory" conservation rally goes out but I am sure that they won't go door to door to check. I have also heard from the people at Emergency Management that the government could conceivably take over our spring as it is well known around here by the locals...gotta get that sighted in.
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I suppose they could just take over anything they chose and call it "eminent domain". That's scary; does your spring put out enough water to supply a large amount of water, or does your farm's use use up it's output?

When I watched that video, I was quite taken with the idea that the water you ingest is kind of what you make it.
it talked about if a person believes its going to be healthy and beneficial, it will be. Maybe that's what saves me from the microwaves - I absolutely expect that what I pull out of that box is going to be nutritious and delicious. I've never suspected otherwise, and my mindset in that regard has never waivered - no matter that the news of the day might say otherwise. I recall that some years ago, they decided coffee was bad for you and now they've decided it helps prevent many serious diseases (as does chocolate!). But, I never gave it much credence and sipped my 8-10 cups a day with no concerns. :) Not that I'm the posterchild of good health, but, just sayin'...
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I've never seen it so dry and the fields are powder dust.

I need to talk to a few of the neighbors to see how deep their wells are and if they see the same on/off or if it's our system acting up. Either way-the gardens need water and I've collected the 5 watering toughs under the roofs to start collection as soon as it does rain. We have 3 times the animals we had last year and the garden is 4 times bigger. I also wanted to water the pastures that are resting.

If we don't get rain this weekend, then it's pump from the creek time with the dc RV water pumps and a few solar panels which will fill at a slow trickle but all day when the sun shines. Means I need to pick up 300' of hoses.

Expanding on that idea, been thinking about a mini-geo-thermal system that circulates water from hoses laid over the root cellar to cool the water and pump it somewhere to cool the house. I'd think the system would work in reverse and heat the house over winter....note heating it over 50 degrees here would be an improvement to the 40 degrees the house averages in middle of winter.

Re: microwaves and water- like the movie showed, it distorted the natural atomic pattern of water. And yes MC -believing is a positive energy on water. Who knew water was sensitive to energy that way. But since most food and life is water, then no more nuking food, water for me. I may end up taking it outside, filling it with silverware and let 'er RIP.
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