Living off grid - our water sources are dry!

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We collect our own water by harvesting but recently our sources are all dry. How do we cope in this situation? It's so dry. the olives and almonds aren't even producing fruit.
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@kathleenpitt1981 Месяц назад

I live in the desert in Arizona, US. Right now it’s 8% humidity out and it’s in the low 100sF here. About 38C. I can’t remember the last time it rained. Your setup is in place to capture any rainfall. Well done!

@suz-annemoss6500 Месяц назад

Andy and Sharon, I have watched your videos for about a year now, and I have seen your land in many of your videos. I know you are in a dessert type of location and I am always amazed that the trees and bushes that I do see are green given the view, knowing you have had no rain!

@LorrieMello Месяц назад

Wow, very serious drought you’re experiencing. Wishing you rain 🌧️

@tibetfruit2324 Месяц назад

We;ll pray for rain to come your way soon!!!

@ianbahn7193 Месяц назад

I wish we could send you some of the wet stuff we are getting here in the UK!

@terrylink6174 Месяц назад

Love how you are both so upbeat and never let anything get you down 😊love your videos 😊

@QGDeclined Месяц назад

Wow. I've only been watching for a year or so, I had no idea you had so much water infrastructure and also are suffering such a drought! Very insightful video, appreciate you doing a review of this topic. I hope the rains return in your near future. 🙏

@grandmasstories3418 Месяц назад

Oh, my! Praying for rain in your area!

@SmithsdaleFarm Месяц назад

Never knew you had so many deposits! And a well!! Crazy they’re all empty, you couldn’t be more prepared 😮🙏

@FincaLife Месяц назад

2 wells, and yes all dry

@layna8924 Месяц назад

HELLO SHARON & ANDY...PRAY FOR RAIN, AS THEY SAY...HELLO WHISKERS!...LOVELY DARLING!...AND ALFIE SHOWS UP FOR HIS LATEST CAMEO APPEARANCE, ALBEIT SITTING IN THE SHADE & OUT OF THE SUN...ALL THE BEST...🙏

@kmw4359 Месяц назад

And I thought Southern California was dry. I’m glad you are able to get water trucked in - at least that is available.

@michalf6460 Месяц назад

so interesting !

@grandmasstories3418 Месяц назад

Swales might be a good idea, in preparation for the next rain period. Praying for you!

@FincaLife Месяц назад

FML...The whole house and all land is a giant series of feckin swales!!!! You must have skipped that part

@Mark-F-Hopper Месяц назад

Guttering and smaller tanks on every available roof, in the short to medium term, so that you capture every possible drop, rather than letting it run off onto land that is not productive. In Australia we go through cycles of drought and floods also. Luckily and the reverse to you guys, we are in a wetter cycle (La Nina) rather than a dry cycle (El Nino) at the moment.

@bobr9895 Месяц назад

Praying for you to get rain!

@mariatajes9054 Месяц назад

I wish i could send you some water from Galicia. We've had way too much this year.

@trixiepickle8779 Месяц назад

Hi Guys, I'm in SW France and we have the opposite at the moment. I shall wish our rain to you.

@user-dr5lg6rd4z Месяц назад

Great explanation yes it's a bummer same overhere.nothing you can do except order a lorrie.

@carolleenkelmann3829 Месяц назад

Watch out when it does rain. We don't want to see what has been happening in Dubai. Put in rock gabions. What is a gabion retaining wall? A gabion wall is a retaining wall made of stacked stone-filled, heavy duty wire mesh tied together with wire. Gabion walls are usually battered (angled back towards the slope), or stepped back with the slope, rather than stacked vertically. Technically anything that prevents retention of soil and runoff water could act as a gabion. Ingenuity is called for, which you two have plenty of. I'm a great believer in the rain dance. The Australian indigenous peoples do it ( or used to, ). I think it has to do with creating Energy fields. There was even a play made into a film about some such event. It worked!

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Would the rain dance only work on our property or would it benefit the local area too? What, after a successful rain dance, it rained locally but missed our property? We'll have to look into this more scientifically...

@dsmith9456 Месяц назад

The rain in spain stays mainly in the plain.... Spain's Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge are responsible for authorising cloud seeding, though Spain only does now or recently changed its policy, to save or protect crops on a local level. So you may get rain if it gets dire.. Keep happy, and dont forget to video the dance, it may be your greatest vid ever :)

@user-lb4tf9nk5w Месяц назад

Thank you for showing that to us.

@jezcottrill4769 Месяц назад

Great video. Really evidences the change in climate and the effects it is and will have on our future

@rogerrichards8694 Месяц назад

Really enjoyed this video, many thanks.

@kirstycable7836 Месяц назад

Hi Sharon and Andy, our fica is more northern than yours but still the same problems! We are showering in a bucket and reusing the water to flush the loo. Sometimes using this water first to mop the floors first before flushing the loo. The water then is used three times. Sometimes using on plants as long as showering products are not harmful to plants. Hope you get rain soon

@pamela5568 Месяц назад

My tuxedo cat used to roll in the dirt then try to come inside. I'd hold him down and wipe him down with a towel. I think the lighter color helps them stay cooler in the heat and maybe camouflages them for hunting. Helps clean their fur too. I hope your water cost doesn't go up due to such extensive drought conditions.

@terrylink6174 Месяц назад

Thanks

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Thank you so much

@user-jh8jr5id2c Месяц назад

You really have to read up on how Swales are changing deserts to lush green areas in some countries

@FincaLife Месяц назад

You really need to watch the video again and pay attention without skipping!!!

@kathleenpitt1981 Месяц назад

How can swales help when there is no rain?

@rb9580 Месяц назад

I'm amazed by those pine trees looking so healthy when even the olive trees are looking dry! I wonder what their secret is? You would normally expect the pines to have a very shallow root system, while the olives will go deep. I wonder if the pine foliage is acting like a fog net on these cooler, cloudy days through the winter? Or perhaps they are just better at accessing the slight ground-surface moisture when you get that 0.5mm of rain, which never reaches down to where the olive and rosemary roots are.

@mariannekuijpers9298 Месяц назад

I hope you got good news in your next vlog and that you DID GET RAIN, hopefully a lot. 🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌩🌩🌩🌩💧

@carolleenkelmann3829 Месяц назад

Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 - 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture". He travelled and taught globally with remarkable results. City people ( and the Irish and the Scots) don't know what it's like to be as dry as a bone that has been sitting out in the sun for 20 yrs.

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Quote 'City people (and the Irish and the Scots)'. What about English countryside dwellers and the Welsh?

@annar6430 Месяц назад

The Beer company will always find water...🍻🍺💧🙏😊

@annar6430 Месяц назад

OMG.. Can totally relate to your sittuation . Our last heavy rain was 2 weeks ago..after a 3 month drought. We too have 3 rain collection tanks and yards of guttering. Praying for all rain starved countries. Do you not think a Sun blocking canopy over the water tank would reduce any evaporation?. ❤🙏🇯🇲

@R1chiesART Месяц назад

You can actually see the tops of all the hills around you bone dry and desertified!. Serious drought problem for miles!!. Hope God lets the heavens open soon...

@portugal1969 13 дней назад

👍

@mafish7962 Месяц назад

❤❤❤

@SettleinSpain Месяц назад

It's terrible around here this year too. As a few have said more of the farmers around here need to move to permaculture. Our land is dry but not as bad as those who are ploughing and drying it out more. My permaculture design course with Geoff Lawton is slowly paying off. Hope you can get the farmers in your area to change their ways. There is an initiative in this region Alvelal. They do cover parts of Granada, Almeria and Murcia but I don't know if they are as far as you. Check out La Junquera who are in your region.

@jenh9252 Месяц назад

Perhaps now the teaching your Grandmother to suck eggs will lessen a bit lol. We are in Andalucía and it is dire here as well....our problem is the tourists who use endless water....pools etc!

@coby6417 Месяц назад

⭐️👍👏🍀💐

@paulinestevens9351 Месяц назад

🥰

@laurencejohnson4106 Месяц назад

I wish you a heavy shower each night for a few months!👍👍 The weather here in Shetland has been splendid recently, but the heat and the wind quickly dry out the ground, however, the rain started yesterday evening and it has continued off and on since then, I have a Whitebeam and a Horse Chestnut in the garden and they are really benefiting from the rain as is everything else.

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Thank you but it's unlikely now that it will rain until end of September / October. Normally it rains heavily here in autumn and spring. We missed it again and can only hope for decent rain at the end of summer. It's only going to get hotter and drier now for the next 4 months. Enjoy your rain :)

@CarlosAlberto-ii1li Месяц назад

There are lots of 'vendedores de agua' in your area, not that expensive either, maybe your neighbours have a deep well and will allow you to buy some.

@mk-xq1tt Месяц назад

I guess one could call it survival.

@FincaLife Месяц назад

It's 2024 not 1724...

@elainekaufman2264 Месяц назад

All all the rain is going to France...they have too much

@FincaLife Месяц назад

The climate is crazy at the moment

@murdomacinnes6176 Месяц назад

👍😎🍻

@DB.scale.models Месяц назад

This was a very interesting video. How deep is your water table there? The reason I asked is , You could run a sand point to the water table under ground? I don't know if you would understand what I am saying because of different terminology. Drilling a well is expensive here so it must be there too. If you don't have a water table there under your land ,Sorry. I live 200 feet above the river valley in Iowa. My well is 180 feet deep. I will pray for rain for Spain and you two.😊

@FincaLife Месяц назад

I don't think we have a water table - we are 600m above sea level, the rivers and reservoirs are all dry...

@user-jn1ci9yz7d Месяц назад

Have you considered diverting your gray water through a filtration and purification system, for washing and watering, this should stretch your water significantly.

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Did you watch any of the video?

@user-jn1ci9yz7d Месяц назад

@@FincaLife did I miss something? I'm easily distracted by social media.sorry.

@FincaLife Месяц назад

@@user-jn1ci9yz7d lol, yes. All our black and grey water goes to water the plants and trees on the land. We personally have no shortage of water, we can get it trucked in. It's the land that's seriously suffering.... and not just here, in all of southern Spain. It's a much bigger problem than we, as individuals, can deal with. We do what we can but on the scale of things, it's like pissing in the sea. The aim of the video was to explain how it is, as we get many suggestions about what we can do to bring this desertified area back to life, none of which we can achieve without rain - which we don't get. Apologies if we missed the mark

@claudia_ese8788 Месяц назад

it was always obvious that you are living in an extremely dry area, but this video showed how bad it really is. The downside of 365 days of sunshine. Would be interesting to know how much you have to pay for a truckload to compare it to the cost of mains water.

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Trucking water in costs around the same as having mains water, in our case around 35€ a month

@johnhedman6182 Месяц назад

If anyone can Andy and Sharon can, what's the chances of digging a well ?

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Did you not watch the video???? We have two, they are both dry!!!! Give me strength....

@johnhedman6182 Месяц назад

I had a doh moment as I was watching, 😂

@carolleenkelmann3829 Месяц назад

Follow Geoff Lawton, - the Australian permaculture expert. "Greening the desert in Jordan." RU-vid. Nothing could be as difficult as turning a dry and parched earth into a flourishing oasis. IT CAN BE DONE. Trees create condensation. Chop and drop. YES. you do have to have some water. AND, if you have no rain, try capturing precipitation with condensation capture through moisture on the hills and in the air with special nets. The problem is, with the soil so dry as it is, it does not allow ANY moisture into the soil molecules. You've got to invest in covering the soil with old hay or straw and keeping what you have in trees by keeping them watered and nourished. It's a huge expense but so is abandoning the farm. Buying in water as you have done, is one of the solutions. Check out Bill Mollison ( now deceased, 2016.) who started this movement way back in the 1970's in Australia.

@FincaLife Месяц назад

You said it yourself... It's a huge expense... If we had that kind of money, do you think we would be busting our asses every day making RU-vid videos?

@anabel9499 Месяц назад

I don't know if it is a fog zone, you can get some water if you use many meters of this-- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k7Vfp4aAuKE.html It is a semi-desert area, I don't know if there will ever be fog, but I'll show you anyway-- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mv6qZAtwKZM.htmlsi=0bpmn-5wYHGhgbcP

@FincaLife Месяц назад

Thanks but fog doesn't exist where we are. We only get dew maybe twice a year