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I’ve never seen “rural” properties on “city” water unless a pipe happened to be running down the road for an existing development anyway. Otherwise it’s all we
by bombcar 1y ago
I’ve never seen “rural” properties on “city” water unless a pipe happened to be running down the road for an existing development anyway.
Otherwise it’s all wells, sometimes tremendously deep.
- bluGill 1y agoDepends on the area. I live in iowa - nearly everyone is on rural water because wells don't produce much water. I'm on a well and I can't water my lawn - after an hour my well is empty. My well is about a meter in diameter so that should be a lot stored. it would be $20k to extend the city water pipe to my lot. i used to live in MN, there I knew farmers on a 5cm well who had no problem watering lawns, and 50 cows from the well. in colorado where this story is water is less available than iowa. (most farms have a year round creek that could be treated to become drinkable)
- bombcar 1y agoThat’s one of the real solutions - we shouldn’t be using potable water for everything. Houses that are plumbed on city water should have two water sources - potable and other.
- bluGill 1y agothat won't help much. Water costs are mostly not in the treatment in general. pipes and pumps are the larger costs for most.