Boreholes, Water Management & Our Land - Life Reimagined 

Stumbled upon your channel and subscribed. Heard your story on the tourism farm and how your license was denied. You are so resilient, my compliments for that. No doubts you are going to make your dream come true.

Hey Guys, Me and my wife are planning to move to portugal as you did, we follow the story of multiple youtubers. But your project gets me the most, i cant await to realise our own permaculture project on our own land. In 1.5 years we plan a trip around portugal to maybe find our property, do you already know when your ressort will open? It would be nice to stop over at your site. Your videos are really valuable for us and our future, especially the first vidoes you did. It would be nice to hear more about all the paperwork and how this stuff all works in portugal to realise a project like yours. thanks a lot, regards from switzerland

you guys are an inspiration. So positive :) thanks for sharing your journey.

I can only imagine your faces when someone showed up holding wooden sticks in order to find groundwater. I am not sure how hydrologists do it but using sticks is certainly not a scientifically backed method. By the way I was thinking planting large shrubs and some taller trees along the eastern and western edges of the lake might provide enough shade to reduce evaporation.

4:28 Off course it was the highest point of the plot - it had to be. After all, it was to be paid by the depht of the borehole. And it was a smily couple of nice foreigners asking = paying for services of the locals :D What else could have one expected in such a situation? ;) Thanks for the great video!

beautiful they are starting to sprout!

I'm new to your vlog. I'm not sure if this has been asked yet. Have you considered a rain water catchment system for the buildings? You might be able to significantly reduce the amount of pumped water needed for your resort bathrooms. The excess could go to the lake.

Happy for you guys . With a bit of rain , the place looks much difference now; That area is very dry in the summer months , so it can be hard to find water . I have to say that the current situation (covid) and the lack of rain in the last 4 / 5 years , made your experience take longer than usual , and more expensive than expected . We have our homestead between Santana da Serra and Sao Marcos da Serra , but we have the house on the bottom of the hill near the river (ribeira) , so we dont suffer as much with lack of water , as we have a well and we pump the water into the house , but for your future business you did well in have a borehole . Stay safe you guys

You already told us the story but it was exciting for us to see the pictures now. Great videos, we love to watch them.

5:55 it´s not square meter ...but linear meter...🙂

CONGRATULATIONS on finding water guys!!! Amazing!!! ;) And thanks for another valuable vid!!

Eyy, love the 16x9

Amazing what you have done so far despite your set backs. Videos really informative. A few questions about water! Was the Lake in situ when you bought the land? Did you make it bigger when you put in the terraces? Should one look into licence for Bore hole before buying land, if possible? Keep up the great work!!! regards, Juliet

Parabéns por se instalarem em Portugal E boa sorte.

Hi I’ve been thinking about your problem and I remember when I was in Thailand I saw siphoning water from a borehole and well this is how it was done using non-return valve on plastic pipe you need to get the height of the pipe above your ground level to your borehole and create a siphon I’m going to send you three videos of this in action hopefully this will give you a good idea of what I’m trying to show you you can connect lots of plastic pipe together to get the height to even end up just having a solar pump with this non-return valve or use no power at all using the siphon mechanism or even a ramp pump no electric required Example one return valve plus if you stack lots of pipe together and backfill with water you can create suction from your borehole ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SERwTNJki10.html Or option two ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O6JVQe8rWrU.html Next example siphon from well ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VeR-b0lH5j8.html Or you could use a shock vac to start suction with a generator ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V82SVeVXKcA.html

Im just wondering. As Your svales starts functioning the groundwater should also rise significantly. This is not an immediate process of course so i can understand the reason for digging the well this deep.

Love your intentions You might look at Geoff Lawton for more inspiration On bore whole, it occurred to me, that the water level will now rise,and maybe you will only need to pump from 100 meters. On planting look at groans is this product is extremely sucusseful with trees in arid areas, you can also re use when trees are established. Look into soil compaction after you're D8 did earth works. Start worm bin, so you will have compost tea to feed trees plants etc. Also you can bottle and sell compost tea. You may consider coverage of land with straw,whilst cover crops develop. No dig no till, fruit trees will bring long term income to. Concentrate on variety of trees and crops,to build soil microns etc Wish you all the best. When established you will be saving more water to site than using Nick London England

Glad to see you have a clear picture in your mind of what you want and taking small steps to achieve it. Parabéns

Respect for what you are doing! Think Global, Act Local One World

Greywater filtering and rainwater collection ?

Thank you for sharing

Which part of the algarve do you guys live in? The view looks amazing

How many meters is it from the top of your bore hole down to the lake, cant you discount this hight from the pump pressure because of siphoning?

Infamous Portuguese Red Tape 🇵🇹 🤦🏻‍♀️. You got it done, and patience is the key 🔑

VERY NICE REALLY.

Just subscribed and love the videos. Do you speak Portuguese?

Here in the US they use the sticks as well to find water:) They install the pump on the bottom of the borehole and have a tank (with water filters) which stays full all the time and when in use pumps the water, you always get the same water pressure at the faucet..

Good info about water consumption. But please can you skip the background music.

Nice video. What are the regulations regarding using borehole water for a tourist business? Don’t you have to be connected to the mains system to secure water quality?

Hi, Have you had the water tested from the bore hole? Is the 2000 litres per hour the replenish rate? All the Best

What’s the difference between a bore hole and a well.

Wow that whole process sounds so draining (no pun intended lol) but seriously hope things work out better going forward

So long story short, how much did it cost?

Really like your video (subscribed) - but you really don't want PVC, it will leech over time. And I don't think anyone will want the name of the company you used! ;-)

This could have gone either way, if you found Oil, you would be laughing now. But on a serious note, thanks for this video, If we need a bore hole on our land, we know what to expect and go around with twigs before hand and find a spot that’s not the highest point on the land 😉

the big pump an boxs it end from rain

Ah,, €55 x 250 Meter,,,, that was a nasty amount of money for a hole in the ground,,, well at least there was water.

As strange as it sounds , dowsing for water works.

have water for 10 people

💓Very plzd for you both💓Do you have a postal address or a PO Box address💓

I invite you to india

You're all that and a super-size bag of chips, want to be youtube friends?

👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏😍😘

Sweet baby Jesus, borehole drilling based on water divining. No wonder they had to drill 200+ meters. This sounds very much like you had your eyes taken out unfortunately

Ola guys, great videos. Just a word of advice from.someone who has been involved in Dowsing/water devining.in the past - I do not know what your religious beliefs are but Water Dowsing is a form of Divining (part of the occult), it is a practice that is part of the dark arts, so to speak. I know it looks all harmless on the surface, fluffy bunnies etc, but the Dowser is told and guided by a "spirit guide" to tell you where the water is and what depth and how many gallons per minute, direction of flow etc. I do not want to scare you, so I won't go into too much detail, but the VERY best advice I can give you guys is to get a good Catholic Priest to your land, and tell him what you have done and ask him to come and bless your land, especially the bore hole. Like I said, I do not want to scare you guys, but if you have your land blessed, everything will fall into place for you. We will pray for God to protect you both and your land, and also for your finances to be protected. If you want to know anything else, just ask. We have been watching your videos because we are also thinking of purchasing land over in Portugal. Like I say, we hope we haven't scared you, but we know this advice will help you both. God bless

I dont want to rain on you parade, but you keep speaking about nature and the environment. Very nice and all, but do you have any idea what the environmental impact of solar panels are? I have them too, but now I'm really ashamed that I do!

noway solar funny

Its cheap try getting that done in the USA you are going to tons of cash

wouldnt go in business with guys who use 2 sticks to find water.

but yet they have half your money