Why????
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And then they say that chemicals soak out of the plastic bottles and into the people, so they pour it out of the plastic bottle into a Yeti Cup. (because that makes all of the difference)
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When did people think they needed to start buying bottled water? When this whole virus thing started talking heads on TV said to stock up on bottled water. What! Will cities turn the water off just because of a virus? I can see having a case for an emergency, but how often has the water been shut off? Of course there are those folks that only drink the bottled stuff. If water is shut off, you have a hot water heater in your house that has between 30 and 60 gallons of water. Now, you would have to go open the drain on it to get it out, but in an emergency it would keep you from dying. Shoot you can even get water out of the tank on the back of the toilet. It is clean unless you put one of those funky blue cleaner things in it. Would it be my first choice? No, but it beats dying of thirst. I guess drowning up on a farm in the 1950s gives you a different perspective. Drinking water from a cistern pump all the time and then every few years the cistern was cleaned and you saw what lived down there. I guess we were tougher.
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Sean, the dead mouse wasn't nearly as bad as the dead skunk or possum when you pulled the end cap to flush the pipe.
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My grandpa took me out to show me their cistern that they got water out of once. He opened the lid, and there were rats running around on the walls, and mice, and snakes, and dead things... may have been rats, but looked larger floating in the water dead. This was the water that they drank from.
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I typically didn’t find the mouse until one of the risers was blocked under pressure. Spent a lotta time poking the sprinkler orifice with wire until all the bloody mouse parts shot out. 
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The only irrigation my parents and grandparents used was for the garden. Grandma had about an acre and a half garden that they lived off of, and the old hand pump had an electric motor bought at a farm auction that did the pumping for them. Sometimes the old worn out weathered cords would make bright pretty sparks.
Mom just ran garden hoses to the garden, and had furrows that the water followed. Now she just uses a sprinkler on her garden. I guess it does pretty well.
Mom just ran garden hoses to the garden, and had furrows that the water followed. Now she just uses a sprinkler on her garden. I guess it does pretty well.
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WHen I was a kid we had an irrigation ditch then you had to dunk and swoop a peice of pipe into the ditch to get the water to trickle down a row. There were little fish in it and when they would tun the ditch off-- the fish would get caught in the culvert and I would catch them with my hands-- or feed them bread-- depending on my mood of the day-- allot of work going down a field or 2 dipping a pipe every 30". Drank from it all the time.
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Aaah, ditch irrigation. We did a lot of that when dad first got a well because aluminum pipe were expensive. We also used the "siphon tubes" to irrigate the rows along with plastic dams etc. It was great when a ditch wall broke and you had to shovel dirt like a mad man to repair the breach. Then later in the season weeds and grass would plug things up too. Our county fair had a siphon tube setting contest each year to see who could set tubes the fastest. They had adult and kids divisions.