I take it there's electricity? As that should be able to pump in the water and replace the stove. Farms here often have a raised water tank, so if there is a power-failure (or drought), water's still available until the tank runs dry. How to stop the water totally freezing in your temps though, I wouldn't know.
"we"? How many of you are thinking of moving there?
not things you get to love in the long run The 'long run' would especially apply to the outdoor toilet. :-)
There's been heaps of experiments in the West with alternative ways of living ever since the hippy-sixties. There's no doubt do-it-yourself solutions to all the problems you might have available somewhere. A possible starting point...
there is a lot of alternatives, the only problem they all cost a lot of nerves and heaps of money... but since ryedeer and his horses moved in in our village, we'll have to do something... water is our number 1 priority and a more civilized toilet will go next (in fact, i do love to feed firewood to an old-fashion stove (as do the rest of us), so a high-tech heating would probably wait)
I can see pumping from a well being expensive. What about capturing rainwater? And once again, storing it in a water-tank. Would require a reasonable annual rainfall and, of course, rain that's safe to drink. Any likelihood of it being polluted? You'd capture the rain from the run-off from your roofs.
I mentioned composting toilets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet) to vriad as a possible solution. I don't remember noticing the wikipedia entry for them though. There's a lot of links there if you want to build one yourself.
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lazy_pixie) wrote2009-01-06 09:56 am
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we definitely ought to provide ourselves with running water, we definitely ought...
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"we"? How many of you are thinking of moving there?
not things you get to love in the long run The 'long run' would especially apply to the outdoor toilet. :-)
There's been heaps of experiments in the West with alternative ways of living ever since the hippy-sixties. There's no doubt do-it-yourself solutions to all the problems you might have available somewhere. A possible starting point...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
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I mentioned composting toilets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet) to vriad as a possible solution. I don't remember noticing the wikipedia entry for them though. There's a lot of links there if you want to build one yourself.