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Bought my first gun ever immediately after the November election. When anyone brings up the stock market these days I tell them I'm investing in seeds, fresh water, and ammunition.
Invest in water purification, if that isn't what you meant. The means to make safe water in decent quantities is going to be so important. I'm very lucky to have a strong spring fed swamp/bog on my property that I'm confident in being able to purify if my well crapped out somehow. Plan next winter is to get out there and find out where exactly the spring is.
Got 2 acres of swamp in the boonies. If I had to do it all over again, with the money I've blown over the last 5 years, I would have dropped a well and solar powered pump. Nothing on Earth is as important as water. Hell, just putting in a gravity shower was a game changer.
Don't discount the value of surface water, be it for irrigation, livestock, power generation/pumped hydro, or simply boiling the piss out of and filtering. I am working on an impoundment at the high point of the property and a pumping system to get water up there/generate electricity on it's way back down.
Oh no I don't discount it! Surface water is where I get all my water. Gotta fix my little pump tonight, but I use it to get water uphill 150' to the barrel on top of my shower/sink thing. I chunk a 1" chlorine tabs in the 69g tank, good to good. Bonus: any silt settles to the bottom couple of inches. I'll have to dump and clean it someday, but for now it's crystal clear "pool water". Damned nice shower after working all day in the heat and humidity!
If I really had to I could make it drinkable, but I'm thinking a deep enough well would solve that? Isn't that the idea, go deep enough and the water is clean? Again, the property is half swamp so the water table is only a few feet underground. Advice?
Drill baby drill. My well is super iron rich but remediable, it runs through a big salt filter then we put in through a Brita to drink. I would look for a section of ledge and save up to drill through that.