Hauling Water

There are some of us that remember the days of hauling water, not just for drinking but for all household necessities. You learned early to conserve that commodity. Needless to say, you didn’t use an automatic washing machine or dishwasher, nor did you turn on the faucet at the sink and let it run while you searched for something in the Frigidaire.

I can recall names of a few persons that delivered water to folks that did not have useable water. These people, us being one of those, usually had a cistern that held the water that these fellows hauled water to from springs located mostly in the north Valley Co. area.

I am told that the cost of delivered water was $.01 per gallon. I am going to guess the tanks that were used were 50-80 gallon tanks. Later we graduated to having our own tank and hauled our own spring water. If you were planning on a crowd for a Holiday, water hauling was on the list of “to dos.”