Ask Dr Deer | Should I Develop a Water Source on My Property? 

Very good point on adding a drinking source to your property. Jeff Sturgis, Whitetail Habitat Salutations, brought this to my attention last year. I added a small source from a container I purchased from The Tractor Supply (as you mentioned). It works great. Thanks for bringing up the subject of how clean the water needs to be. I wondered about this, and you hit the nail on the head.

I sunk a 100 gallon stock tank. Its gets lots of use by both deer and elk.