Bringing in the Water

It has become increasingly difficult toting water from the spring to the piggery. In addition to providing water for the pigs, we'll need water for cement once we start back working on the house. We've decided to make the situation easier by bringing water to the property.

We actually had two options. There is an underground stream running beneath our property. We also had the option of running the municipal water to our property from the main road in Magatas. My wife's papa has a pump which was retrieved from a previous dwelling. With the pump, we'd only have to drill down and run pipe to the water. My wife was against the idea of the pump. I think she was afraid we'd still be pumping water by hand when we finally move into the house.

I felt that we should do which ever option was the least expensive. After getting estimates on the drilling, as well as the cost of having a line run from the road, it turned out that drilling, and then connecting the pump was far and away more costly than installing the water line from the road.

We bought the materials needed for that project this morning. The line will be about 25 meters (82 feet) in length. The two photos show a portion of the line dug along side our property.