On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:36:07 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:

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>On 23-Oct-2018, wrote:
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>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:50:49 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:
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>> >
>> >On 22-Oct-2018, wrote:
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>> >> On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 5:27:35 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > On 2018-10-22 5:58 PM, wrote:
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>> >> > > It's something nobody ever thinks of until their drinking water is
>> >> > > not
>> >> > > available or anything like that. I've never given my water heater
>> >> > > a
>> >> > > thought until last year when it died on me. Same thing for most
>> >> > > all
>> >> > > appliances.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I hope everything is back to 'normal' as soon as possible.
>> >> >
>> >> > It's bad enough here when the power goes off. We life in the country
>> >> > and have a cistern and a well. It gets a little tight in the summer
>> >> > when the well runs dry and the cistern is low and the water company
>> >> > can't deliver for a couple days. If the power goes out there is
>> >> > nothing
>> >> >
>> >> > to power the water pressure system so there is no running water. No
>> >> > water to drink, not water to shower and no water to flush the toilet.
>> >> >
>> >> My grandparents had a well but it never ran dry and it was drop the
>> >> bucket,
>> >> let it fill up, and pull it up and there's your water. Hahaha But
>> >> reading
>> >> your story makes me glad I live in the city.
>> >My paternal grandparents lived on a farm with a cistern that supplied
>> >their
>> >water needs most of the time. By the time I came along, they had an
>> >electric pump and running water. The house, smokehouse and equipment
>> >shed
>> >all had gutters that directed rainwater into the cistern. It was long
>> >after
>> >they retired, moved "to town" and I was a teenager that I thought: wait,
>> >birds crap all over the roof, then the rain washes it all into the
>> >cistern
>> >---------- YUCK!
>>
>> Then again, though that was true of the cistern that my father had in
>> Spain, he also kept a handful of fish (don't know what variety) in it
>> so that mosquito's could not breed in the water. The water tasted
>> good, we never boiled it lol
>I don't recall the taste of the water; but, I'm confident I'd remember if it
>tasted bad. I have no idea how cisterns actually work, there may have been
>some kind of filtration - at least that is what I choose to believe. 8-)

The cistern in Spain was to collect water in case of well problems
plus my father wanted it for the garden. It was a huge concrete thing
by the house, maybe about 12' x 16' by 10' high. It was there when
they bought the place and the fish were already in place. He was told
to remember to lift the lid daily so they had light and air and to
feed them daily. There was a tap on it and neighbours were welcome to
take what they needed when they had no water.