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Bruce[_28_]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:34:49 -0300, wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:05:19 +1000, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:52:36 -0400, jmcquown >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On 7/15/2017 4:26 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 12:21:41 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Wells? Gallons per minute? Most houses in the US don't have wells.
>>>>
>>>> About 15 million households in the U.S. depend on a private well
>>>> for their water. That's not chump change.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>>I'll have to take your word for it. Never had a private well to supply
>>>water in any house I've ever lived in. That's stretching from CA to NJ
>>>to OH and on down to a few southern states. <shrug>
>>
>>You're a total city type. I bet there are more wells in the
>>countryside.
>
>Of course there are - on a continent with vast distances you're never
>going to find water in pipes across the whole of it!! Our house in
>Shad Bay, only 20 minutes from Halifax was on a well. Ours was great,
>a drilled well, 375 ft deep but full of iron so we had a water
>conditioner through which the water passed first, used to have to
>remember to add a bag of salt to it every so often.

Same in Australia. A large part of the countryside isn't on town
water. We're on tank water (rain) ourselves. We're also not on town
sewer. Nobody is here.