Waterhole: A Guide To Digging Your Own Well.
While looking at ways to prepare in terms of water, river water, rain water, dew, frost, and groundwater come to mind. I think having a house with a lot of stored water qualifies as good, having a bug out location with a renewable water source is better, but knowing how to build your own rain water capture or dig your own well, now that’s great. I mean, you never know when you might have to start over. Your bug out house gets burned down after a fire fight. Or after you secretly tried to cook. There goes your house, its roof and accompanying rain water capture system. Or maybe your well gets a grenade thrown into it. Bye, bye well water.
If it was a contractor who had come in and done all that stuff for you, your gonna be screwed when it breaks down. And everything eventually breaks down. Usually in quick succession of one another and in the worst possible order.
On the other hand, if you have the skills to build that stuff yourself you will always be ok. Even after shtf. That’s why I’m featuring Waterhole: a guide to digging your own well by Bob Mellin and Martha Weston. Acquire the shtf skill of digging your own well. It’s an entry-level book, so it’s geared at novices and teaches the basics of digging a well with hand tools.
My intention with this one is to remove any fear that digging a well might be too complicated. Once you get through this book you can always dig deeper into the subject with other books about multiple types of wells, should that prove to be necessary or desirable on your part. Happy digging.