Hey, Pioneers, welcome to episode number 456.

Today's episode, we are going to be talking about how to have a water source on your homestead

for both yourself and especially if you have livestock in a long-term powder out.

Power, not powder, power outage. I'll get that one out there. This is a topic and something that we

have been thinking about on our homestead for quite a while. And this is where I always like to use the lens of where it's good, better,

and best. And so what I mean by that is we have our own private well. We live quite

rurally. And in fact, it's the only water option that we have. There is no public water option for us to tie into, for which

I'm actually quite grateful because I don't want to be on a water system that uses chlorine or

some of the other chemicals that a lot of public water systems use in order to treat their water.

So I'm actually quite grateful we're on our own private well. However, that means when the power goes out or the electricity goes out, our well is not working because it does require electricity for the pump to be able to run. Now, it's been about five years ago that we got a generator that is large enough to actually power our pump. Pumps, believe it or not,

actually use a large amount of electricity, especially to get started going. And so you have to

have a pretty good size pump with some larger running watts in order to operate a private well.

We got that about five years ago. So, of course, that means that you have to have

some type of fuel for your generator in order to operate it. But when the power goes out, we do have

running water via our generator. However, I'm always looking with an eye towards the next best setup

or how to become even more independent than where we currently are.

And so, of course, when you're looking at your generator for our water, that means that the

generator has to be working and running, but it also means that I have to have fuel for it.

So in a long-term situation where there could be power down extensively in an area and or where roadways

could be cut off. And we've had that happen here due to mudslides. We, the longest period of time

that we have been without power and had the main road, thankfully there were some back roads

that were open we could get through, but our main highway was shut down for almost a full two weeks.

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