There is a pond on our property. Oddly, the small creek is mostly dry right now …. this has happened only 1 other time in decades…but I’d use the pond anyway. There are springs that fill the pond but in a terrible drought year, even it went way down. Yet, we’d have enough to draw from it.
I would chose to run some of the water from the pond directly thru my water pre-filter and filter… into CLEAN containers. I have all sorts of sizes. Some would be designated UNclean for flushing.
IF we still had vehicles, we would carry the large Waterman bottles up with the truck for clean water. 5 gallon buckets with lids for UNclean. No I cannot lift either of those when full. We would fill them with a smaller container – always keeping track of Clean/UNclean. Can back truck right up to the pond.
If StuffHitsFan and vehicles don’t work, we would use large saddlebags across the horse. Worst come to worse: wheelbarrows, sleds, lil’ red wagon,old wheelchair, wheeled grocery carrier, 2-wheel dolly….lots of options since we regularly deal with moving stuff around like bales of hay. BUT it’s so very steeply UP HILL. Would not try a wheeled trash container due to the UP hill.
If stealth was required, [even on our own land…..OR if the weather was nasty/cold, I wouldn’t bother with filtering at the pond. I’d bring it up and deal with it at the house.
…Of course we’d use water catchment off the roof of house/outbuildings too. OR use the big sheets of plastic on a hillside – spread to funnel into containers. Requires rain….
OldMtWoman