Pre water war has started here........... me............... V

[Ponce]

My only real friend around here is one of the few who has a water right to the creeks water, I have two water rights, he took two inch water line all the way to the top of the hill, about four miles, where he build a small water dam...five days ago someone went to see him to ash if he had a dam up the and my friend told him to bug off......well, yesterday they tore down the dam so that he had to go up there to rebuild it.........I believe that it was the guy across from me who I told that I would give him water in exchange for his labor one day a week, if the water was for household use I would give it to him for free but he is using the water for his marijuana plants, in other words, to make money. We have had no snow this year so that the mountains has no run off water to give us, the creek is almost dry and is going to be a very bad year for water, a very dry year.

V

[Dogman]

Wish you and your friend well! (no pun)

It sounds like it can or will get nasty and will test how good your water rights are when things come down to crunch time. You sound like you have the "law" on your side. Will be interesting how that works out.

Or will they do the "For the greater good for the most people vs someones legal rights? "

[mick silver]

we also have a creek on our land we used for the garden . why do you guys not drill a well . I have a well we used for the house and barn and other out building . just a thought . hey call the cops if the guy keep stirring the pot and let them know what his is up to

[Ponce]

Well, the water war is on..........last night "someone" broke up his small damn which we fixed this morning, he is getting a game camera that will take a picture of anyone walking in the general area.........tell you what.......I told him never to invite me again to go up there, it took me three hours to recover from that trip, damn gringo..........I will have a talk with everyone around here and try to solve the problem the American way.......otherwise I have to fix it the Cuban way.

V

[Hypertiger]

Start digging...eventually you will have a hole big enough.

"A cistern (Middle English cisterne, from Latin cisterna, from cista, "box", from Greek κίστη, kistê, "basket")[1] is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by their waterproof linings. Modern cisterns range in capacity from a few litres to thousands of cubic metres, effectively forming covered reservoirs."

[Ponce]

well, I have a 550 and a 3,500 blk water tanks that I keep full at all time.....using paper plates and taking a bath only once a month (say what?) the water tanks should last me till the next showers.

V

[mick silver]

it's starting to smell around here

[mick silver]

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Goma (DR Congo) (AFP) - Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, sits by one of the world's largest freshwater reservoirs and has some of Africa's heaviest annual rainfall, yet it is a thirsty place.



Most of the city's one million residents, living close to the shores of Lake Kivu, have to struggle every day to fetch water home.
From daybreak, an endless stream of cyclists heads to the lake and back, filling battered containers with as much water as they can carry.
In a makeshift shelter, health worker Fedeline Kabuhu tries to ensure that no container leaves without a dose of chlorine, which she injects with a syringe to make sure the water residents collect is potable.
"The people drink this water. They do everything with it," the 46-year-old French charity worker said.
A single cyclist can transport up to 120 litres (about 250 pints) to be sold on to private water stores. At a rate of 10 trips to the lake each day, the carriers can expect to earn up to $10 (seven euros) between dawn and dusk.
But by the end of one morning it started to rain and water collector Lambert Biriko decided to call it a day.
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"Today is ruined," he said, adding that residents would gather run-off rain water instead and "won't buy anything from us".
Located on the border with Rwanda, Goma is the capital of DR Congo's North Kivu province, which has been wracked by bloody unrest for more than 20 years, displacing scores of thousands of people.
In those two decades, the city's population has exploded, swelled by an influx of refugees from neighbouring Rwanda and Burundi as well as local Congolese seeking shelter from marauding armed bands.
- 'A lack of seriousness' -
At the Sports Circle roundabout in the centre of Goma, an old woman washed herself in a puddle next to a pump where lorries fill up with water before transporting it to other neighbourhoods.
Fiston Mugisho, 20, is unemployed and spends the day washing the few motor-taxis that want to stop. He has to buy water from the cyclists each day or walk to another neighbourhood where houses hooked up to the main grid sell what comes out of their taps.
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"But you don't always find water," Mugisho said. Even for those properties that do enjoy running water, the supply is frequently cut.
As in many other parts of DR Congo -- the world's least developed country according to the United Nations -- the people of Goma have learned to fend for themselves after decades of government neglect.
The lack of basic infrastructure has given rise to the Lucha (Fight for Change) protest movement. A shortage of water, electricity and opportunities for work shows "a problem of governance" and "a lack of seriousness", according to Micheline Mwendike, a member of the apolitical body.
Alongside other organisations, she said, Lucha gathered 3,500 signatures at the end of May for a petition demanding that provincial governor Julien Paluku commit to connecting Goma to the water supply and publish "a plan to bring water to the entire city".
Backed by regional segments of the political opposition, Lucha is gaining momentum as it accuses authorities of using the insecurity as an excuse for inaction.
- 'Not normal' -
The movement stages regular protests and has harnessed the power of social media, using Facebook and the Twitter hashtag #GomaNeedsWater.
Paluku did not respond to repeated requests for comment from AFP.
Deogratias Kizibisha, the North Kivu director of public water distribution firm Regideso, said that 45 percent of Goma residents are connected to the central supply. Lucha claims the real rate is closer to 20 percent.
Jean-Pierre Kambere is a nurse in Birere, Goma's poorest slum.
"Adding chlorine is not enough" to make water gathered from Lake Kivu safe to drink, he said.
"Every week patients come to us with diarrhoea or fever" caused by drinking polluted water, Kambere added.
Not far from the health centre, Joelle, a frail woman of 20, crouched at a public tap, bent double under the weight of the container strapped to her back with a scarf.
"It's not normal to live like this," she said. "The authorities need to provide water to every home."


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[Ponce]

The problem with that water is that it is not filtered, God know how many bugs it has.

Anyway, just now I confronted the guy across from my home and he was not the one that busted my buddies water dam, but I now know who it was..........it was the guy who had his water hose attached to my line and that my buddy found and took out, this was an act of revenge.....as soon as I see him I'll tell him to knock it off, of course he will denied it "It was not me, it was not me".

The guy across from me appears to be a nice guy and as soon as he needs my water he will tell me and work for me one day a week, he has what he calls a "crew" so that it looks like he has enlarge his pot area in the back......wen yesterday all the way to where my buddy has his inlet for water..........NEVER AGAIN, I almost fainted going and coming back, when I got home I laid down for a few minutes and woke up FOUR hours later, more tired than when I laid down........went into my hot tub and felt better.

V

[Serpo]

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[Ponce]

Don't say that I didn't tell you....."Learn Spanish and Chinese and BUY WATER STOCK"...........for those of you with your own land? get a Land Patent.

v

[Glass]

how to invest in water: http://www.goldstockbull.com/articles/precious-gold-invest-water/

[mick silver]

it raining so hard here today it's like a cow pissing on a flat rock .