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We're planning to source our water supply from a combination of the stream water that runs through the quinta, and rainwater harvesting.
My thinking on the subject of water has been enormously influenced by the work of Viktor Schauberger. I was excited by it because of the emphasis he places on the vortex as the primary energetic form pattern in nature, something which I'd discovered through my own explorations, and because many of his insights came through a conscious engagement with natural energies, again echoing my own process. I bought The Water Wizard, which I'm slowly (it's not a quick read) working my way through.
From the introduction to the book:
"Viktor Schauberger (30 June 1885 - 25 September 1958) was born in Austria of a long line of foresters strecthing back some four hundred years. He developed a gift for accurate and intuitive observation so great that he was able to percive the natural energies and other phenomena occurring in Nature, which are still unrecognised by orthodox science. Refusing to attend University at the age of 18, to the fury of his father, Viktor Schauberger left home and spent a long period alone in the high, remote forest, contemplating, pondering and observing any subtle energetic processes taking place in Nature's laboratory, where they were still undisturbed by human hand. During this period he developed very profound and radical theories, later to be confirmed practically, concerning water, the energies inherent in it and its desired natural form of motion. These eventually earned him the name of 'The Water Wizard'."
Schauberger's insights about water are profound and far reaching and I'm wanting to make use of some of his wisdom in designing the practicalities of how our water supply is contained and transported to the buildings for our use.
Specifically, I'm planning to create underground egg-shaped (or at the very least, cylindrical) water storage tanks in a well-shaded position. Schauberger observed that when water is exposed to light and warmed by the sun, it loses its vitality and becomes sluggish. Exposed for long enough, it dies. He meant this quite literally – in his view water is a living thing, the lifeblood of the planet, rather than just a simple inorganic compound of hydrogen and oxygen. It's at its most vigorous and vital when it's close to its maximum density, ie. at 4°C, and in darkness. Holding it in square or rectangular containers doesn't help either; angles prevent the formation of the natural vortices and circulation patterns that are essential to maintaining water in its optimum state of aeration. Consequently it stagnates, and like anything else that's died, decomposes and becomes a breeding ground for bacteria, moulds and algae, requiring filtration and chemical treatment to make it 'drinkable' again.
He also observed that the multi-layered vegetation of a natural forest creates an abundance of water, something that permaculturalists in arid areas like the Deccan plateau and biologists in Borneo are also discovering.
Here's a video documentary (somewhat stilted but still good) about Schauberger's work (42 minutes). An accessible account of his work is also available in the book Living Energies.
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