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Comment by Howard P Reynolds on May 27, 2014 at 12:16

Wowzers, Steve!  Your house must be an old one, with a hand-dug well under the floorboards.  Not that I go looking for this, but I have only ever seen one local house with a hand-dug well (under the kitchen floor).  You see some yard wells, probably usually fake, but I don't think a hand-dug well under the house is very common these days.

Comment by Howard P Reynolds on May 27, 2014 at 12:09

Yep Clint, I have a Katadyn water filter with extra filter guts (charcoal & ceramic) in my ALICE pack.  Thing is, you can't filter what isn't there or is unfilterable (chemical contamination; natural or man-made).  I'm thinkin that a "100 year drought" - occurring every 100 or so years, coupled with a water table shift might be worse than a 100 year flood.

Comment by Clint Thompson on May 27, 2014 at 10:36

For water purity, I would use filters.  For moving around searching for game or food, I have a "Life Straw"  http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=lifestraw+filter&...    This straw works well.  I was developed for children in Africa to get clean water from the foulest sources.

Also, you can make your own filters from charcoal and use plastic pipe to put the charcoal into connecting funnels or hoses to the capped ends.

I also have a little hand pump water filter I carried in Kosovo and Iraq.  Do your research and get-er done.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on May 27, 2014 at 10:17

Howard, my Grandfather's well in Southeastern Kentucky was contaminated with sulfur due to coal mining on the other side of the mountains in Virginia some 100 miles away.  They set off a charge  to loosen a new vein of coal one day and it shifted the water table.  It was just that simple.  So I would say, yes.  Even a mild earthquake could shift water tables and even surface water.   In fact, earthquakes along  Madrid Fault shifted the flow of the Mississippi River  around 1811 and actually caused the river to flow backwards! 

The Madrid Fault is named after Madrid, Missouri around where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet.  In falls within the States of Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Comment by Howard P Reynolds on May 27, 2014 at 10:09

And, the same crust shift (earthquakes) might dry up a bunch of wells by moving the ground water elsewhere or deeper.

Comment by Howard P Reynolds on May 27, 2014 at 9:56

Yeah, I know it sounds a little over the edge, but I wonder if part of the future problem of water shortage, in areas normally without water supply problems currently, might be even mild earthquakes shifting the surface water.  Yellowstone's 45 mile diameter super volcano is due to erupt any day, according to vulcanologists who can probably trace their lineage to the "flat earth" scientists or Earth-is-the-center-of-the-solar-system Deans of Dogma.  Nevertheless, a quake might just shift the flow of some of the current spring water underground.  That is, if Yellowstone blows, the spring up in Coon Holler, in West By God Virginia (WBGV) might go dry.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on May 27, 2014 at 9:06

We have a water well on our property with a old fashion hand pump. There is also a small Bayou that skirts our property.

Comment by Ken Vigil on May 26, 2014 at 21:32

I think that the more you can store now the better. Bottled water is a great place to start as is water collection and purification products. I know that in Colorado collecting rain water is illegal in some counties, that should be the first clue that all is not right.

Comment by Gary Nelson on May 24, 2014 at 5:54

Water and survival go hand in hand. 

Comment by Howard P Reynolds on May 23, 2014 at 22:46

I think you are right, Ken.

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