How off-grid Alaskans get their water

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2025

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  • @HD82345
    @HD82345 4 місяці тому +3

    Damn, just scrolling through UA-cam shorts and I come across a fellow Fairbanksian(?) lol. Been a while since I didn’t have running water, but I remember going to water wagon back in the day.

  • @richardrosenthal2230
    @richardrosenthal2230 5 місяців тому +5

    I get my water from there. That is the best tasting water for free. The Fox spring is amazing.

  • @Lennymogen
    @Lennymogen 5 місяців тому +2

    When we moved back to Juneau from living in Arizona for almost 15 years the water there was terrible even with reverse osmosis, I couldn’t contain myself. The water was so ‘light’ and ‘refreshing’ I kept on guzzling it until I ‘swished’ as I walked. It was like being free from the desert !!! I was home…

  • @godchi1dvonsteuben770
    @godchi1dvonsteuben770 5 місяців тому +6

    I grew up in Southern New jersey, and we had well water my entire life. That house still has well water to this day... In NEW JERSEY. Matter of fact, the entire town does. Medford Lakes NJ.

  • @jessealibozek
    @jessealibozek 5 місяців тому +2

    Wow your so enthralling and entertaining

  • @James-dn8dh
    @James-dn8dh 5 місяців тому +7

    I like the new well but i kinda miss the old one where you had to use pennies to hold those big metal buttons in the winter lol

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому

      @@James-dn8dh I will miss freezing my thumbs off in -20. Really makes you tough hahaha almost too easy now

  • @rodan2852
    @rodan2852 4 місяці тому

    They need a hand-scribbaled sign, It would feel more communal. Could also do a proper script font if your feeling high class

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  4 місяці тому

      Wood burned for sure. It’s almost a little too nice for my taste. I miss the old leaning shack

  • @jamesblames350
    @jamesblames350 5 місяців тому +2

    Coool! Love off grid living!

  • @tyler420durdenAk
    @tyler420durdenAk 4 місяці тому

    Fox or the water wagon😂😂😂

  • @deucedeuces
    @deucedeuces 5 місяців тому +11

    Best water in all of Fairbanks! They do have some donation bins out there to help keep that place up and running. I always try to drop a couple bucks in when I fill up my jugs

    • @willie_dooval
      @willie_dooval 5 місяців тому +1

      dude where in fairbanks is this? i have been paying to fill my 160 gallon tank in my truck every other day for over a year at water supply point in north pole or with the water wagon people!!!! is there a way to fill big tanks there?

    • @deucedeuces
      @deucedeuces 5 місяців тому

      @williamduvall22 it's out in Fox. Unfortunately they don't have high pressure hoses so filling a big tank isn't really feasible

    • @willie_dooval
      @willie_dooval 5 місяців тому

      @@deucedeuces damn thats a shame. any idea where a cheap place is? as spending 8 bucks (which doesnt seem like alot but adds up) gets to be a pain every 2 or 3 days.

  • @UnsteadyEddie13
    @UnsteadyEddie13 4 місяці тому

    Im really glad they renovated the water punp there! It was getting sketchy there for a moment.

  • @Tony_AKUT
    @Tony_AKUT 5 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic water… Well, nothing is free. Lots of money goes into that from the State and non-profit organizations. You might be benefiting but someone is paying 😊

  • @MrSprintcat
    @MrSprintcat 4 місяці тому

    Exactly, my well is '360 Down

  • @ryanalaska8570
    @ryanalaska8570 5 місяців тому

    Yup. Best water in fairbanks is the fox spring water!

  • @smokinmidwest9898
    @smokinmidwest9898 5 місяців тому +1

    Love Alaska

  • @raymondgarlick4624
    @raymondgarlick4624 5 місяців тому

    So here in Flint Michigan, we don't trust that the city water is safe.....
    So we drive forty minutes away and fill out 5 gallon jugs from an artesian well

  • @josephbutler6858
    @josephbutler6858 5 місяців тому +1

    It’s not exactly free but the fox water station is nice. Water tastes great

  • @MrLoobu
    @MrLoobu 5 місяців тому +13

    In Canada, I get free crystal clear water from my home tap

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому

      Do you have a well?

    • @MrLoobu
      @MrLoobu 5 місяців тому

      @@Letters_to_Anita No

    • @MrLoobu
      @MrLoobu 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Letters_to_Anita Just town water, I don't pay for it, and it is literally better than bottled.

    • @MrLoobu
      @MrLoobu 5 місяців тому

      @Alaskan_Gnome_Lore I know of t
      Four places outside of town where you can get spring water running out of rocks too.

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому +2

      @@MrLoobuthat’s really incredible. I don’t know if anywhere in the US where tap water is clean and free. Always filled with fluoride and chlorine and a bunch of other chemicals

  • @othahex
    @othahex 4 місяці тому

    Fox Spring rocks!

  • @ImOofTheOoffer
    @ImOofTheOoffer 5 місяців тому +1

    Thats new. I never heard of this before. Im used to running water here on base.

    • @brianlotze5830
      @brianlotze5830 4 місяці тому

      Outside the Fairbanks city limits there is no piped water. You either have a well, a holding tank that you have to fill up yourself or get water delivered, or you live in a dry cabin like this guy and fill up jugs that you use at home. In a dry cabin you might have a shower that you would have to fill up with these, but most people shower at the university, or a laundromat, or a friends house.

  • @anthonyfryer742
    @anthonyfryer742 5 місяців тому

    No alot of us don't. .... But i do....lololo

  • @cryptobear88-8
    @cryptobear88-8 5 місяців тому

    Fox water. That's what we drink and cook with!!!

  • @44dton
    @44dton 5 місяців тому +12

    some people you just wanna push down stairs! "hoh hoh hoh!"

  • @danielcamacho2123
    @danielcamacho2123 4 місяці тому

    If that was in a city that copper pipe would be ripped off the wall 😂😂

    • @brianlotze5830
      @brianlotze5830 4 місяці тому

      It is only a couple miles from a city and in a borough of 70,000. But this water spot is used by many and anyone that did that would be instantly on the bad list of everyone in town, even those who would steal from other places leave this alone.

  • @liamhodgson
    @liamhodgson Місяць тому

    My dream career project is a dam removal like the Yurok did

  • @shaynejohnson527
    @shaynejohnson527 4 місяці тому

    Just got to fairbanks. Where is this water site. Because I've only seen the ones I've had to pay for.

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  4 місяці тому

      Look on Google maps, it’s on the steese in Fox, just north of Fairbanks by a few minutes. Past gold daughters and the pipeline viewpoint

  • @joshua_daniels
    @joshua_daniels 5 місяців тому

    Nice!

  • @anthonylabeau6159
    @anthonylabeau6159 5 місяців тому

    Thought it was a well, not a spring?

  • @thorbridge9093
    @thorbridge9093 5 місяців тому +1

    Used to live on riffle Board Road

  • @NARASiRacingOffical
    @NARASiRacingOffical 4 місяці тому

    im new to Alaska! id love to meet up and get some new content for my YT Channel!

  • @gussdunn5105
    @gussdunn5105 5 місяців тому

    Thats a pretty fancy spring. Somebody had to pay for that structure. Not trying to be an ass here. Hardly anything is free.

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому

      You’re absolutely right! The community came together and pooled resources. No government needed. How every public utility should be

  • @autumnaki725
    @autumnaki725 5 місяців тому

    I love how politics and media says we need to help Africa get clean water and shelter, while our own people are homeless and sick from the poison in city water systems. The lengths people will go to for power 😔

  • @KyGun
    @KyGun 5 місяців тому

    I would never get it from some building put up by the state or feds. There is no telling what they are doing to it. I would find a natural source. I myself have a well on my property.

  • @anthonyshriner4362
    @anthonyshriner4362 5 місяців тому

    I stopped getting water at fox

  • @eduardomaldonado3161
    @eduardomaldonado3161 5 місяців тому +1

    Jajaja hell yea brother

  • @willie_dooval
    @willie_dooval 5 місяців тому

    dude where in fairbanks is this? i have been paying to fill my 160 gallon tank in my truck every other day for over a year at water supply point in north pole or with the water wagon people!!!! is there a way to fill big tanks there?

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому

      Up in fox, you can find it on Google maps, it’s right off the highway. You can’t fill big tanks but I bring about 10, 5-gallon jugs and fill up my drinking water for the next month or so.

  • @farmsgrace341
    @farmsgrace341 5 місяців тому +2

    Is that also shet/shower/shave water?

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому

      Next summer I intend to build a shower house but yes

  • @Jesusiscoming24
    @Jesusiscoming24 5 місяців тому +1

    But to to cold in the winter

  • @Arkansasamarine77
    @Arkansasamarine77 4 місяці тому

    That’s some of the best water too have jugs of it at home

  • @collineare
    @collineare 5 місяців тому

    GMO runoff, and metal dust and other poisons from geoengineering pollution seep into the ground - might want to check.

  • @hannahbrites
    @hannahbrites 4 місяці тому

    Or you could simply get city water, lol. You people in dry cabins crack me up. How is that outhouse at -50 F below? How much is gas to drive to Fox to fill your bottles? Bet you love your trips to Planet Fitness to shower and wash your vegetables. But ya gotta have the whole "Fairbanks" experience, right? Good thing Walmart is right down the road. :-) (Even funnier is when the dry cabin people order Door Dash and Instacart).

  • @scottford8736
    @scottford8736 5 місяців тому

    Where is that water spot

  • @TheTwistedarm
    @TheTwistedarm 5 місяців тому +1

    So Alaskans can’t go down to the streams to get water because the big oil companies polluted their environment.
    So now they have to drive to town to get their free water that the big bad government gives them.
    This video is weird

    • @anythingpipes3722
      @anythingpipes3722 5 місяців тому

      i could easily walk the few blocks to the chena river and get water, but drinking river water is fuckin dumb you have to filter and boil that shit.

  • @matthewherringshaw9668
    @matthewherringshaw9668 4 місяці тому

    Fox water not what it use to be....

  • @thefucrew9865
    @thefucrew9865 5 місяців тому +1

    So, they just built that ???

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому +4

      It was a natural spring that they built a shack over with a pump house. The city owned it but eventually gave it up and a private organization crowd funded to keep it open and upgrade it for better winter access. Great example of not needing the government for public works!

    • @thefucrew9865
      @thefucrew9865 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Letters_to_Anita , well, if only we could do that on bigger scales.
      Unfortunately, we have poisoned the soil, that used to filter the water, and now the soil poisons the water - down here in the Lower 48

  • @BrownSuga-cs2by
    @BrownSuga-cs2by 5 місяців тому

    News flash, Alaska is not the only place with springs… I know, mind blowing 🤯. Drill your own well and you can have running water like a 3rd world country in 2024. 🤯🤯🤯

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому +1

      Drilling a well costs 10s of thousands of dollars.

    • @BrownSuga-cs2by
      @BrownSuga-cs2by 5 місяців тому

      @@Letters_to_Anita 10s of thousands of dollars? Sounds like I need to open a water well drilling company in Alaska.

    • @willie_dooval
      @willie_dooval 5 місяців тому

      @@BrownSuga-cs2by It does here dude. I have an existing well but its old and collapsed and only mud comes up now. to get it rehabbed is about 8k to get new one drilled beside it costs 11k here in north pole alaska. and nearest city water hookup is 6 miles away.

    • @BrownSuga-cs2by
      @BrownSuga-cs2by 5 місяців тому

      @@willie_dooval why is this not common knowledge in the lower 48? People down here bitch about prices all the time, I feel should make a visit there. Is it like that everywhere or just rural Alaska? Like is Anchorage crazy expensive also?

    • @willie_dooval
      @willie_dooval 5 місяців тому

      @@BrownSuga-cs2by when I lived in Alabama wells were closer to 3-7k to dig. Or county had water lines for the people.

  • @simonettegiselle2655
    @simonettegiselle2655 5 місяців тому

    and so many of y’all walk around even in the winter smelling like pungent ass because of those dry cabins.

  • @lucyfuir6386
    @lucyfuir6386 5 місяців тому

    If you are going into town to get things you're not really off grid are you. Why don't you dig a well on your property.

    • @englishwoman7697
      @englishwoman7697 5 місяців тому

      Off grid means living with no water...no power......dnt be so snippy.....

    • @lucyfuir6386
      @lucyfuir6386 5 місяців тому

      @@englishwoman7697 How do you live without water? You need to drink it to survive. And isn't he using power to get himself into town by using a vehicle and isn't he using power to pump that water into his 5 gallon jugs. If he dug a well on his property with a hand pump he would be off the grid. What your describing is homelessness.

  • @modquad18
    @modquad18 5 місяців тому

    Sounds like a democrat thing.
    Shit, just give everything away 🙄

    • @Letters_to_Anita
      @Letters_to_Anita  5 місяців тому +7

      That’s the mentality of a slave. The creator made us water and food to be harvested. Do you like making billionaires rich while they poison us?

    • @UberBoiFuta
      @UberBoiFuta 5 місяців тому

      You're a special kind of stupid 😂

    • @Chriscraft50
      @Chriscraft50 5 місяців тому

      Propaganda is strong in this one, young Skywalker.

    • @ColeSotil
      @ColeSotil 5 місяців тому

      Giving and receiving freely are for the people that will be around in another 14 or so years. It's strange to us that did not allow ourselves to conform to quid pro quo conditioning. We love what we love , we use our talents and we give thanks as we give freely of ourselves as well as receive freely whatsoever we need . Plenty with plenty to spare. No worries whatsoever. The other ones However have followed after T.T.W.C.. And they are high-strung, competitive and think the world would collapse if they didn't circulate the thing that we hate, because we love God . If you don't despise money, you despise God. If you love God, then you hate money. If you like money even a teeny tiny bit, and claim to love God, your a liar and have never known God. So instead of charging one another for things that are just so so at best, usually low quality crap that turns out to be a hassle and in the pursuit to profit monetarily all good things are made into really cheap and heartless marketed products that are anything but good, and even the good stuff is sold for high prices devaluing the goods before the people get any good out of them, making the world a place to see waterways, rivers oceans creeks stock full of plastic cheap crap, and other cheap crap that people can slave for a buck, to purchase such cheap crap. As the value of literally every thing is drastically devalued by placing a price on all things priceless. It's nothing more than a cheap and sneaky smokescreen to preoccupy the people's minds so the evils of T.T.W.C. can manipulate deceive and rob the people of their time and labors so they can watch the world literally turn to cheap non-sustainable crap that would otherwise be priceless and sacred and truly valued, appreciated goods ,all priceless and each person tends to the needs of whatever needs attention as they use their talents to make the things to live with and do so with great joy and pleasure as all of the things they have and keep are priceless. The richest of the rich hate money and denounce it all with no small amount of fervor. For by placing a price on anything instantly devalues it to practically worthless just that quick. For who is so foolish and unaware that money is to the devil what blood is to man? Oh yeah the God hating rich blingdom loving T.T.W.C's. That's why they are only going to be allowed here on earth for a very limited small amount of time. A few more years and they will either turn to God and celebrate the marriage of heaven and Nature or they will die off miserably like fools too proud and arrogant to receive freely all things rich and even priceless, as they insist on working one another to the bone and kept in poor health so they can steal what is not theirs and sell it to others so they can take credit for the shit show that will destroy them in their own ignorance and pride.
      Have all things good for free. Or make
      All good things cheap and useless at a price none can afford as this the latter is the thing God hates . And after all , it's all His anyway.