What is your source of water supply?

Water is an important thing, isn't it? We get our supply from the River Cauvery. The water is sweet. A dam was built in 1924 across it. This is 19kms away from Mysore. The river originates in the Western Ghats and joins the Bay of Bengal. At the time of constructing the dam, some villages nearby had to be vacated. There is also an old temple which now lies submerged in water. When the dry season comes, the temple becomes visible. The walls of the temple is as clean as new!! This is the amazing quality of the river water, soft and sweet. Not for nothing this river is worshipped.

I wonder when the Temple is visable if you could get a photo? It sounds like it would be a wonderful sight! Water here is from our well which taps into a wonderful underground spring and is cold and sweet. If the spring were to go dry (which has never happened) we would go deeper into the groundwater table. That water is useable but heavy in iron and not clear like the spring. Without water life cannot exist.

That temple was visible a month ago and I couldn't go there, though I longed to. Now the water has started to flow in from the catchment areas and we can't go there.

Good old well water!!!! Best kind!

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Well water - 200+ ft deep - lots of iron and minerals. We have a softener and two filter systems and little iron still filters through. I believe it is a resource that many people take for granted.

I saw something yesterday that just perturbs me to no end. We are in a drought. I drive past this "estate" on my way to Lincoln. I have been watching them build a pond and I'm thinking where is this water going to come from? I also notice they are digging a well. Well yesterday I noticed the pond has water in it. They must have pumped water out of the well to fill the pond. Yes - this well is on their propoerty but it does draw water out of the groundwater in that area. Sorry for the vent!

We get our water from Päijänne Lake, which is a long lake some 100 km's north of us. The whole capital area gets most of the water there. Water is clean and good here. And we do have water, Finland has got the most lakes in whole Europe :]

We're on well water here. Water for garden though is from a creek that we dammed. We don't have to have a softener here. The water is very soft. In Ohio, we were on well too but so much iron that we had to have a softener and run it 3 time a week.

We have a hand-dug well circa late 1800s or early 1900s. It's 18 feet deep (from ground level) and has 8 feet of water in it (measured two years ago in the middle of summer ~ drought time). It still has the old pulley above it! It looks so quaint. :) That pulley sure comes in handy when the pump goes out. ;) We could go to either of the two spring-fed creeks we have, but I like dipping it from the well better. The water is good ~ very sweet. It has much lime in it and we have to deal with the deposits in the coffee maker, but it's nothing a little vinegar won't cure. Actually, it tastes just like Evian water. When Kenny and I were on the road, all I had to do was get a bottle of Evian to cure my "well-water jones". LOL!

Lake Travis snakes it's way along the northern side of our community and many subdivisions get their water from it. They have big pumps and treatment plants. LCRA (the Lower Colorado River Authority) has recently purchased many of those water plants and is planning on providing a public water supply in the next few years. I think we'll stay on a well.

we have a deep well. about 600 ft down. great water. no chlorine taste and that is grat to me.

We, too have well water, but it's only about 60 ft deep. You can hit water from between 8-20ft, depending on the rainfall. Generally, whether city water or well water, Seward's water is glacier fed. Winter and summer, it comes out of the tap ice cold.

We're on the mains but the water this house gets is local. The pipe is too near the surface because we get icy cold water in winter and not so cold water in summer. I think it comes from local springs because it's very good.

Town water is not as good and I can taste the chemicals, although people who live there say they can't.

I've seen no wells locally - so much spring water and glacier water they perhaps didn't need to dig any.

Switzerland rarely has droughts - if it's really hot the glaciers melt. In fact, we often get floods if spring arrives suddenly and all the snow melts at once.

The water here is very hard and we get lime scale everywhere. For this reason I have a large water butt near the garden and use that to water my plants, as long as it has water in it. They don't seem to suffer times I have to use mains water.

The river water has been through a hydro-electric power station up stream so I can't say the same about it as Dinu!

I envy Weezing Green's ice cold water all year round - I have to keep a container of water in the fridge in summer, as I like my water really cold.

Interesting to know from different people all over, the various methods to get water. Ice cold water in a few places! In one of our treks last year to the hills, we found that the water flowing in streams down the crevices was pleasantly sweet and cool. It was natural mineral water. Wish we got that in the taps. Here some people have drilled a 'borewell' to draw the ground water but this is very high on investment. Due to high pollution insome areas, it is not worth it becsuse the water is contaminated. Those who can afford the borewell in the home, use it for the garden and for washing purposes. Again in some areas and cities, due to overcrowding and to meet the supply, they have drilled too many wells and the water-table underneath is getting dry as well. In some areas of our city, borewell water is supplied and in the homes, there is a lot of problem with lime deposition. The boilers get coated quickly.

My grandparents have got a borewell, their water is very clean and tastes good :)

I have been to Evian-Les-Bains where the water comes from.. :] Not very nice city but the bottled water is good.

Neat, Evert! Is there a lot of limestone there? Maybe that accounts for the similar tastes ~ we've got nothin' but limestone here.

No, I think there is no limestone, but I can't be sure. I don't know their water pH, KH nor GH. The ground is mostly pure rock or dry woodland. There is many swamps too.

we must have the juckiest water from all....

we have the water from a small creek, where most of the pastures are. hard water iron and lots of tannin that gets in there from the bog.
the color is brown/yellow and in spring it's almost black wahhhhhhh

the drinking water we get from my inlaws they have a well where the water is so clear and good.

here all my appliances that use water turn brown and slimy. the whites turn beige after washing a few time :-(

I do hope that we find a well one day... or just collect the rainwater at least just for the new house.

I'm used to this since over 15 years now. so I guess I can live with it, but would give up on some stuff without thinking, for good water.

We get water from the town wells. It is chlorinated and treated with soda ash to raise the ph which is quite acid as pumped. Interestingly enough the nearby cannonsville reservoir is the main source of water for NYC but local municipalities use either wells or the Susquehanna river as their water supplies.

We get our water from a well that is 70 feet deep. It has the smell and taste of sulfur so I buy my drinking water in town from a machine that does the reverse-osmosis process. Our water for the yard and pasture come from the pond and it rises and falls in level with the irrigation ditch, nearby, being full or not full. The pond is about 9 feet deep in the winter when there is no irrigation water so I don't worry about running out for my plants although I am planting native plants that can take drought.

Our water supply comes from a river under the Ohio River. Lots of minerals to give an awful taste. A water softener is required for drinking water and to keep the pipes clear of clogging. To water seedlings in the winter I by-pass the water softener to eliminate the salts it produces.