How We Get Water Supplies in Rural SIBERIA, Yakutia | -50C/-58F

[@ВладимирЛях-ы1п]

Девушке этой огромное СПАСИБО!!! Я жил в 60 годах в Смородничном возле Сангар. Сразу вспомнил про добычу воды , строганину, рыбу с душком, кусковой сахар , сгущенка в 3 л банках. Строили дома из пластов снега , резали ножовками, приносили свечки и сидели там СЧАСТЛИВЫЕ!!!!! Терли друг другу щеки снегом когда появлялись белые пятна признак обморожения. Стояли всем поселком на берегу нашей ЛЕНЫ весной любовались ледоходом . Отец откалывал нам сосульки с.чистых льдин и никто ангиной не болел. Помню как собирали и ели ягоду всякую . Брусника в бочке была заморожена ковыряли кинжалом . Самое лучшее время жизни детство .....ЯКУТИЯ!!!!!!!!

[@markmelton587]

Excuse my rudeness, but I must tell you that to this old Southerner, you are just amazingly beautiful. Your smile lights up the dark winter skies. Good luck and best wishes to you and your family.

[@panicfarm9874]

This is almost like seeing another planet compared to where I live. Thanks for showing us a part of your life

[@paulcoffey359]

It's off the charts, I can't believe it!

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[@curiouslass4280]

Her voice is so soothing. Smooth and soothing.

[@william5694]

In Hawaii we collect rainwater from the roof. We pipe it from the roof to a 45500 litre tank. We pump it from the tank into the house. It is filtered three times. The smallest filter stops anything bigger than 5 microns. Then an ultraviolet light sterilizeses it. It rains 350cm per year, where our house is. It is in the rainforest, but some areas on this island get three times that much rain. We never run out of water.

[@MariaSolko]

Great to know, thanks for sharing!

[@Marymooau]

Sounds like what we do in Australia

[@gracieamazing2076]

Wow. Impressive and interesting! . Just how do you sterilise that size of tank with uv? I mean, what equipment? . Is the tank stainless steel (or similar metals), reinforced plastic or concrete? . Do you add helpful chemicals like fluoride to the water? Thanks

[@BenjaminKlahn]

@@gracieamazing2076 not op but... answers. 1. You don't sterilize the tank, you sterilize the water in the pipe as it's going through. Just think of it as a water filter and one of the filters also uses UV light. You could buy one for your home on amazon, not really that expensive, a couple hundred dollars. 2. Yep, any or all, mostly plastic these days I would think. 3. depends on the person/collector. Individuals usually don't but some systems catch for a whole building or village and they usually do.

[@william5694]

​ @Gracie Amazing The UV sterilization light does not go in the tank. It is in a canister that the water flows through after it first flows through the three filters. The canister is made of stainless steel, and is about 10cm (4 inches) in diameter, and about 75cm long (30 inches.) The water travels the length of the canister to get exposed to the UV light. Inside the length of the canister is a quartz glass sleeve, containing a 20 watt fluorescent UV tube. The large diameter of the canister assures that the flow is slow enough that the water, and anything in it, is exposed to the UV radiation for long enough to denature any pathogens. The quartz glass is needed because other glasses block UV light. At our house the tank is made out of reinforced concrete, called ferrocement. Much more common is a steel tank with a rubber liner; much like an above ground pool, but with a cover. It is becoming increasingly common to have several smaller plastic tanks connected together to get the capacity needed. To get a discount on insurance for the it is required to have more than 45500 litres (10,000 US gallons.) This large amount is to supply firefighting efforts, if ever needed. I do add chlorine to the tank every three or four months. This really isn't needed since we have the UV light. However, it is a belt and braces approach to the safety of the water. If one method fails we are kept safe by the other. I do this because the tropics are warm. Bacteria and other biological hazards grow very well here. Having the concrete tank helps with that too. It keeps sunlight from penetrating into the tank. This prevents algae growth. We use fluoride containing mouth wash because it is not in the water.

[@Horizon-m3l]

What a sweet Woman. Her voice is so soothing.

[@nickhexum01]

I have never thought about how water gets into the places I've lived. The work you have to do to maintain a water supply in your home is amazing to me.

[@justunicorn001]

Joseph....Don't feel bad, most people have no idea how they get their water. I'm a plumber and I have worked in aa lot of different environments, The further you get from civilisation the more you tend to know how you water is brought to you. Most in cities just accept that they turn on the tap and hey presto, water comes out It is fun finding out how different people solve a basic problem of water transportation and usage

[@glamsky3257]

Yeah me too. I only know that water in the house comes from the tap. Except when we camp out, we get water from the stream.

[@maosama3695]

Dont worry america will melt those pesky ice for you in the coming months.

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[@nickhexum01]

@joalincontroll oh positive all the way.

[@quailman8238]

Your voice is so soothing its ASMR to me

[@arcticradio]

Here in Northern Finland we have either water from the lake or deep ground wells both using an electric water pump and pressure tank. Today is -31.C so in these temperatures the underground water pipe needs a heating cable to stop the water freezing up. Our ground well has such clean water as it filters through ancient sand banks that were once part of river systems after the ice-age.

[@DD22221000]

Video plz!

[@YummYakitori]

Finns and Yakuts (Sakha) share the same ancestors, descended from a single same male ancestor 6600 years ago :)

[@MFrrFrr]

Lithuania - deep ground borehole 50 m in depth, water from ancient layers of ground made by glaciers (not rains or rivers), waterline is buried 2.2 m under ground (below freezing point) and insulated - no need for heating cable, no worries even if -40 C (record in our country was -43 C). In your case water line should be ~3 or 3.5 m under ground...super clean and fresh water (~10K years old from ice age) - not a rain water, 0% pollution !!!! Collecting ice is such a medieval technology, though charming :)

[@gus473]

👍🏼We too have an older well, hand dug before 1920 and with very tasty clean water, in Northern Minnesota USA. It's brought into the house by an electric pump in our basement, through a pipe buried below the typical frost line and encased in a larger PVC pipe to help prevent freezing. Our coldest winter temp in past 20 years was -40° F/C and all was good. 😎✌🏼

[@alexandrvasilev2865]

@@MFrrFrr there was a russian merchant in 19 century in Yakutsk, Shergin was his surname. He came here from Khabarovsk (if i remember correctly). And he tried to dig a well. Though he was aware of existing of permafrost but he thought it would be maximum 10 meters. So he made a 60m deep hole in his backyard and then surrendered. Then he was funded by russian science academy to dig it deeper and record temperature in different layers. So Shergin made another 100 m in deep. Today it's a part of museum. It's called "shakhta Shergina", or "Shergin's mine". Nowadays we knows that thickness of permafrost are about 200-250 m in Yakutsk area. And up to 1300 m near Suntar (west of Yakutia).

[@pieckberry1229]

Where I'm from, Georgia (Sakartvelo), many people living in villages don't have running water. A couple years back, when I'd visit my cousins (Kakheti region), the adults would give all 3 of us 2 bottles each and we had to walk approx. 3/5 mile to get to the Tskaro (clean water running nonstop in a faucet) and collect water to drink. We'd do this once or twice a day. We used to boil water in big pots to wash ourselves. The running tap water at home couldn't be used to drink. When I'd visit my grandparents in another village of the same region, they'd have an old tank you'd have to fill which had a drainer on the bottom, and every time you pressed up on that drainer, water would come out. We'd wash our hands and face with that. To bath, we'd heat up water there, too. There was no tap water here at all and, naturally, we collected drinking water from the Tskaro. When visiting my other relatives in a different region (Shida Kartli) they had running water both for washing your hands and face and to drink, but here, too, water needed to be collected and boiled to wash yourself. Experiencing all of these a couple times a year, I'd really appreciate the comfort of running drinking AND showering water when I'd get back home to the Capital - Tbilisi. Being used to this comfortable lifestyle of not having to work hard to simply drink water and shower, watching you guys do all of this helps me appreciate the basic life necessities that my parents provide for me. Much respect to you people! I know I wouldn't be able to last in these conditions for more than a week. I hope one day, very soon, you guys will be provided with running water and I hope many of my country's smaller villages will have this comfort, too. Sending blessings from Sakartvelo, Caucasia!

[@PitasLife91]

Today I am blessed with the water in my house, I don't need to go anywhere. But I used to take water from a small river almost everyday when I was a little girl, it was a long walk and I had 2 galons (5kilo each) on each each hands. Only difference is we lived in hot weather and I loved it. I can't imagine living in a cold. you guys are amazing

[@MariaSolko]

Thanks for sharing! I believe physical work makes people stronger in all ways.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

@@MariaSolko Oh, without a doubt it does. Whether it’s the effort of keeping water supplys for the winter or “just” get up and go to work, hard work does have a positive influence on life. That’s also the reason for city people doing work out and riding bicycles. You just feel good after having worked hard. I have tap water as well, and doesn’t have to have a water supply like you do, but I guess that it’s just a matter of what you’re used to. It’s just as common for you to store ice as it is for me to open the tap for a glass of water.

[@getting_an_earn]

@@MariaSolko Why are there many chinese people in Yakutia?

[@didaucungduoc08]

@@getting_an_earn they are not Chinese

[@beskia4547]

​@@getting_an_earn They are completely different from the Chinese

[@zumrut9664]

Ruhi çenetle sizi tanımıştım. Yakutistan çok ilginç ve harika 🌸🙏

[@shraddhapathare29]

I feel that to live in Yakutia you need multiple people at home for help. One needs a lot of physical strength to do daily tasks.

[@azivt5115]

Yes indeed and lazy peoples like us cant survive in yakutia for one its verrrry cold and two its hard life from daily chores to work its impossible at least for me

[@emmapeel8163]

like in older times; everyone has a chore. the age & strength determines that chore. it's how we survived as families & communities. Now most people are self-sufficient because of modern machines .. it's interesting to see communities still together for survival.

[@LMB943]

I agree, it takes a village. 😊

[@davidrwdenny]

Mountain people in the Andes still have that cooperative, collective outlook. It's wonderful to witness.

[@mediii8057]

Not only physical strength but mental and emotional too. I don’t think I could ever live In a place like that. Nothing about that place sounds appealing in any way shape or form

[@smackpointgsps1476]

I'm in rural Australia and I am catching rain water from my shed roofs and bucketing it into my house as needed. Our water is heated on a wood stove (which is our only source of heating and cooking) and we wash in a small basin. I spend a lot of my time each day splitting wood and carrying water, so I appreciate the effort that goes into these most basic necessities.

[@Skiskiski]

I miss those times. Those who do this are not as lazy as city folk.

[@Zonaverdi_]

Really like these videos where you record yourself speaking a quiet, relaxing narration seperately over the footage of what's happening. So relaxing and informative

[@tryeverything3666]

Am I the only one who feels like they take everything for granted after watching her videos? Honestly you motivate me more than alot of people. I thank you very much for your amazing content and humble ways! Sending love from England

[@RaneBane]

We are getting poisoned

[@jemandjemand2362]

yes you are

[@jamesbizs]

I bet you didn’t do a single thing due to being motivated by the video

[@Skormification]

I'm so glad I discovered your videos. I'm from Finnish Lapland and I'm no stranger to cold winters, the coldest I remember was in -99 when it was -53C. We still went to school and life was mostly normal. It's fascinating to see how you live in those conditions.

[@ghost-ul1dl]

просто жопа какая то, как в таких условиях можно жить? просто иди и вешайся..

[@amandajohnson8116]

@@ghost-ul1dl why was this necessary?

[@ghost-ul1dl]

@@amandajohnson8116 это шутка,манера речи. но жить в таких условиях я думаю тяжело.

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[@neon-rust]

Remember that winter well. We had -45 in Swedish Lapland (where I live). My car did _not_ like that... ;) Can't say I was big fan either...

[@nikhilpachauri5761]

I live in Delhi in India, we get 4 hours of water supply for the day (2 in morning and 2 in evening) and have overhead tanks to store the supply for the day. We use Reverse Osmosis water treatment unit at home for making this water potable !

[@an-cx1ho]

if i was an indian the very first thing after reaching adulthood would be moving to kerala.

[@LeoTrotskiy]

I had lived in New Delhi in 2004-2007.... Wonderful years, love this City

[@alexsandersoares7704]

I'm from Brazil and I enjoy watching Yakutia videos. Who knows, I might know this place. Send a hug to Brazil 🇧🇷

[@extenebrisvita6262]

Yakutistana Türkiye'den selamlar

[@ruththompson9369]

I am learning so much from you, I grew up in a different time when we had outhouses and never had what I have now.. and I learning people still live like I did over fifty years ago..

[@beanmeupscotty]

This just made me 100% more appreciative of the amenities that come with living in a Northern area populated enough so that such essential things like heating/liquid water never have to be worried about. Here in Central Montana, the prarielands are cold and often incredibly windy during the winter. I remember as a kid looking forward to days where temps dipped under -20F/-29C because then school was automatically canceled. Once I started working for a hospital it meant working in rain or shine to the fullest extent. I think the coldest day where I was getting up and leaving at O'dark-thirty was -35F/-37C (plus a decent wind chill, as usual). Car worked but it was too cold for its little digital display to fully turn on! The kind of lifestyle your family has just to deal with such extreme cold is incredible. Much respect to you all!

[@richardwargo5201]

Maria, thank you for sharing your life in Yakutia with rest of us. Very enlightening. We have a well in our backyard with an electric well pump which pumps water on demand into our house. We use it for all uses, but we also buy bottled water for drinking. We also have a septic tank which is underground. We can go several years before it needs to be pumped out. It would be difficult to have a central water system, as running pipelines underground is very difficult there due to ground being frozen all year. Running pipelines above ground would be very expensive.

[@kreterakete]

Ok.. my friend.. but where do you live.. in which country are youuu ?

[@briantipton2905]

The sound of the ice hitting the water, that sounds so cool. Reminds me of water splashing on hot oil.

[@esther_margolis]

Your video about taking water from the river was one of my favorites! I think it's so important for modern people to appreciate all the conveniences that we have. We did not have running water for a few days because of a storm and we needed to carry our water in buckets from a neighbour's house. When things like this happen, it reminds me how lucky we are to have such an easy life compared to how people lived in olden times, or today in some places. The special thing about water at my house is that our hot water is supplied by a solar water heater on the roof. Almost every home in Israel has this system, which was a technology invented here in the 1950s, and still very widely used today.

[@genericname746]

@FichDich InDemArsch Takes one to spot one.

[@pianosonata5029]

@FichDich InDemArsch I'm an Arab and I'm for Israel. I do not support a Palestinian state. Please send them to Iran. They act like victims all the time.

[@Сельскаяжизнь-х1и]

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[@kimboston7979]

I live in America and watching your videos gives me a new perception of life and how fortunate my family is. This is awesome!

[@marivicyarso3528]

Hi Maria 👋.im from Philippines, I'll always complain about our water system in our area where i live,because every weekend there is a water shortage starting 8am-6pm but when i saw ur video i realized how lucky i am to have a water that we can get directly to our faucet and stack water easily

[@infinity2z3r07]

I live near the Great Lakes region of USA which shares a border with Canada. Maybe every few years it will become cold enough to freeze and burst the water pipes inside older houses, which can make a huge mess and expensive damage. To stop this from happening we allow each water faucet to drip during extreme cold (a single water drip every 10 seconds is good enough). Most people from warmer regions of my country don't know about this trick!

[@robaldridge6505]

and leave your kitchen/bathroom cabinets open so the pipes stay warmer

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

it is so amasing that the USA has put so much pollution into those huge Great Lakes that they are all become poisonous.

[@robaldridge6505]

@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 kind of like Europe.....

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

@@robaldridge6505 which geographical region would serve analogously in europe? i know of know killed-off dead zone in europe.

[@BenjaminCommet]

@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 I live by the great lakes, while a couple of them have been polluted badly at times they definitely aren't all poisonous

[@elleck3542]

Hi Maria, I love your vlogs. It really makes me understand how much we take our water pipes for granted. I am from Australia and we experience severe droughts. All new houses that are built must be built with a water tank, water conservation is very big down here. It is the middle of summer down here so seeing the cold temperature in Yakutia is lovely.

[@hdosch]

Just found your channel today. I'm from the US and am very intrigued by what people need to do to survive in various regions around the world. I find your videos extremely informative and entertaining. By the way, your English is amazing.

[@denzelwarrencruz5090]

Hi Maria, it's nice that you have uploaded another video. It's very satisfying to watch your videos and know your culture and the environment you live in. I'm looking forward to visit Yakutsk in the near future.

[@dommerdom]

So many interesting problems one doesn't even consider when you've never lived in a place which is always frozen. What a great channel.

[@patrickhackett3878]

I live in a boat that has 2 large water storage tanks, as well as a septic holding tank that is pumped out every 2 weeks or so. I filter the stored water for drinking, and have a pump that sends the fresh water to the galley (kitchen) and head (bathroom). It requires constant maintenance, but has worked reliably for many years. It is enough for a small family for about a month of cautious use, even when sailing to new locations. Thank you for the nice video!

[@alexandrvasilev2865]

Hi. Wow. Please make a video about life in a boat. That sound so interesting.

[@TheEmpress185]

"-50 is not the coldest but we consider it a cold day"Wow you guys really are resilient.I think I would flash-freeze on the spot 🤣

[@EastTexasRanching]

When I was a kid, we would pull water from a well with a bucket. I thought that was a hassle, but wow. I never had to wait for it to melt to have a drink! Great video Maria.

[@flykintoun]

That ice is so amazingly clear. Where I am in Australia, we average around 65cm of rainfall per year, so we collect the rainwater from every roof surface available, we also have a bore to supply water, but it's 300 meters deep and the water has to be run through a desalinator to make it drinkable

[@TheWuschelMUC]

Even in Adelaide tap water tastes bad. It contains too many minerals. In the kitchen most people use collected water from the roof. They have a large water tank behind the house.

[@frankmurphy5]

I live in rural Ontario, outside London and have a well. It's 120ft deep and is great for drinking. I don't have to do anything special, but I'm always aware that well pumps and pressure tanks don't last forever.

[@RedEyeC]

I am retired from our local city government (SW New Mexico) where one of my jobs was water treatment and distribution. All of our potable water is from a large underground aquifer - we treat it as it is pumped up out of the large wells - each well averages from 500 to 1000 gallons per minute - disinfected (treated) with 3 parts per million HTH (dry chlorine in tablet form). Very interesting video!

[@dwightschrut3]

From south Texas here. We don't really need to do anything special for water here. The coldest it gets is around 0 degrees Celsius. And that only happens maybe once a year. Love the videos!! Please keep them coming! Your way of life is very interesting!

[@sergioblanco6321]

Lol I’m from Brownsville … are you from that area?

[@hawaiianbrother7465]

Thank you, Maria for this insightful video; please continue to provide these educational videos for the people of the world...there is so much to learn...

[@Blublod]

Wow! I’ll never take municipal water for granted ever again. Where I live you just open the tap and out comes clean potable water for whatever use you need. You guys in Yakutia are real troopers with the kind of work you have to put into harvesting water. Amazing!

[@aaronwongnewyork934]

This one is really educational for me..drinking water from ice block ! Wow! Imagine most people just turn on the tap and let it run sparingly..Thanks for sharing , this is really an eye opener!

[@suenor1019]

Maria, you look so happy despite the cold weather! It's amazing how you go through so much just to obtain water when all I need to do is to turn on the tap where I'm living! Cheers, Maria and stay warm and cheerful always, my favourite Yakutian KZbinr 😃❤

[@danielgoen9452]

I live in Missouri USA, and we are extremely spoiled. We turn on a faucet, and water comes out. We forget sometimes how easy we have it here. When my father was a boy, he lived in Northern Michigan. They would cut ice for the ice boxes. They had no electric refrigerators at this time. They would store the ice in a large building full of straw. The straw would keep the ice all summer. Have a nice day :-)

[@WillowzWRLD]

I love Yakutia. I can't wait to visit someday. Here in sunny California, gonna enjoy a nice +80F/+27C next week.

[@fensoxx]

This winter in the northeast of the US it is -10 and we leave water dripping from faucets fed from a dug well to keep the pipes from freezing. Much easier than what you need to do! Good luck and thanks for telling us your story!

[@PHIFLOHILSTE]

Thank you for educating us about to live in a harsh environment like Yakutia. So interesting! Love it! Thank you!

[@SimpleTek]

I live 60 miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. It gets to -40’C here. We use wells and have heat tape on the lines so the water doesn’t freeze. Frost doesn’t go below 10 feet and our wells are about 80’ deep. Basically besides turning on the heat tape on the water lines going into the ground there’s no difference between summer and winter water use. Electric pump on the well

[@BryanDenlingerKJVM]

Here in Northern Maine most people have a well with electric pump for their water supply. We live off grid and get all of our water by driving about 7 miles from our property, where there is a natural spring that flows all through the winter. We use similar blue plastic water jugs (like those in your video) but our jugs have spouts on them. Very interesting video!

[@lynlee9446]

Hi Maria, from Nigeria. I have always wondered how you get water for domestic use and sanitation. Thank you for the videos, I always look forward to them because i live in the tropics, Snow and the cold fascinates me.

[@CalipsoCareline]

For about 5 years, I had no running water in my house, and we made a gigant hole in the backyard to reach underwater, we used a bucket and ropes to pull the water from the bottom to the top.

[@richardcaplin4718]

since watching your videos I've taken for granted how easy it is in England...well done you 👏...love to visit

[@Daniiiiikay]

Thank you for sharing. This makes me feel so much more privileged about the water in our house. It flows to the tap and the waste water flows to the water treatment plant. We just have a filter for drinking water. We have it easy it seems. Thank you for showing what water is like in your part of the world.

[@t.h.o.r.]

Hi Maria- Im in the North Island of New Zealand. I live in a small town of 8000 with my Siberian Partner. we live an urban off grid life - much like yours but without the intense cold. We collect rainwater and have a biodigester for methane gas. Solar panels on all our buildings provide our power although AC is available if we need it.. Much love Stu and Snejana

[@kisdasenglothnam]

Wow! Being from the states here in San Diego, California we do take things like water for granted. Seeing your videos have definitely made me more appreciative of what we've got here. Just found your channel by accident the other day and is enjoying your content. I love the outdoors and fishing here where I can do both freshwater and saltwater fishing. I own a boat and isn't too far away from the ocean. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Keep the videos coming.

[@irajiranpour3544]

Hello and thanks for your interesting content, I live at 2350 meters high in the mountains, I use a well 50 meters deep, submersible pump, presurised secondary pump and container system. In winter I drain the system at night, temperature drops below - 17. Purity of water is superb, yours is so fantastic, keep well always,

[@jannilsson5216]

Hello Maria, great channel! I live in Sweden and we have cold winters too. In houses without public water (like mine) we ususally have a deep drilled well somewhere in the garden. Deep down inside the well there is an electric pump that feeds a pressure tank in the basement. The pipe between the well and the basement is buried to the "freeze free depth" (usually more than 1 meter underground). The pressure tank supplies the bathroom, the kitchen and wherever we need water. The water quality is fine so we dont need any filters. It can be used directly for drinking.

[@rustemmauziev1095]

В Якутии земля замерзает больше 2-2,5 метров) там почти вечная мерзлота)

[@Threemore650]

Sweden is gorgeous. lovely people too. Super polite and friendly. I really enjoyed picking lingam berries in the forest there.

[@gabriellagirardi4741]

Luckily we have a lot of water supplies and we have never had any problems. I live in a valley (Susa Valley) situated in the North west of Italy, near the French border, surrounded by huge mountains and rivers, but the place where you live is totally another world I could see from your beautiful video that you had been very good at solving this big problem because of iced waters in winter. Awesome video and wonderful place. Thank you

[@jamesblair9614]

Another great video Maria, and for once I’m seeing it freshly posted. You certainly have your challenges there, but you have all the details worked out. Here in Vancouver Canada, it’s a simple matter of turning on the tap, and once it goes down the drain, most people don’t have to give it a second thought. I wonder, how do the elderly people make out, there is a lot of physical work to keeping your water supply working.

[@taracriste1]

Due to costs involved we lived without running water for over a year. We shower at my dad's, my sister's or my mother in laws. We also did our laundry there too. We filled up 1 gallon containers there several times a week. My husband had a vanity with a 5 gallon bucket under an unattached sink where we brushed our teeth and we empty the 5 gallon bucket once a week outside. We pumped pond water into 5 gallon buckets for use such as watering the garden or cleaning tools etc. Now we have running water and I am so happy. God bless you all

[@madmattdigs9518]

The water you collect from the river looks so clean and clear! I would love to drink that water. The rivers around here are polluted and disgusting. I live in Chicago and our water supply comes from Lake Michigan. It has to be treated at a water treatment plant before being piped to peoples homes. It’s much cleaner then the local rivers. But still… not like you have in the arctic.

[@suzaynnschick158]

You did notice that her family boils the river ice water before drinking it, right?

[@madmattdigs9518]

@@suzaynnschick158 yes, I did. But even so, it’s still very clean. I don’t know where you live but can you imagine drinking the water from the Chicago river? Or any river that flows through a major city. Even after boiling… it’s just so disgusting to think about.

[@waltervega8730]

@@madmattdigs9518 yes, i agree! I live in NY, 15 mins over the bridge into Manhattan. I cannot imagine drinking the water from the Hudson river 🤢🤢🤢. LoL

[@alteronline]

in Russia we have polluted rivers near industrial areas mostly, but even in Moscow swimming and fishing in the suburb is not restricted. when the navigation is stopped during winter you probably can drink water after boiling

[@nsmith4588]

Its fascinating reading how many ways people get water to thier homes across the world. Here in the UK, it comes into the house, clean and drinkable, through pipes and we have it available to use all the time. We are fortunate.

[@taranian]

I live in northern Taiwan, and while our water systems are fairly typical for a modern city, our supply is very dependent upon annual rainfall from typhoons. The last couple of years have shown far fewer typhoons than is normal, and I'm worried that climate change is going to make water scarcity a real challenge, even for the tropics! Great video, and thank you for educating us about life in Yakutia ❤️

[@bradbehning5592]

We love your videos and we love you too Maria! Your life is so hard yet you seem to be so positive.

[@jengates1575]

Awesome video Maria! Our main water source is a river also, but it is brought into our house with City waterlines. Thanks for another great video! 💙

[@karoonboomie2813]

Dog definitely was the highlight of this video!!!!!

[@HamRadio200]

I am humbled to say we have it really good in the lower 48 USA. We easily take for granted the luxuries that many in the world live without. Much respect to you and your people!

[@cactiguide]

There are people in the USA doing similar things with similar weather. Unless you don’t consider Alaska as part of the USA?

[@tadmurphy7436]

Okay I just found your channel and it's amazing. I'm so intrigued by the Russian life. To answer your question. I grew up in Minnesota America. We're in the winter it can get to 20 to 30 below Fahrenheit. Which is close to the same in Celsius. We never worried about water. Just turn on the faucet you had hot you had cold. Get her the morning take a shower no worries. Wash dishes. Wash clothes. Wasn't a concern. I can't imagine just being your everyday life. I've watched a lot of videos and a lot of KZbin channels on life and Russia. The sad thing is I can't imagine. Your people and your culture are amazing. God bless you. ❤️💚☘️

[@zeynepun.]

In Istanbul Turkey, we purify the water for drink because it's more healthier. Not everybody purifying their water but it's pretty common. There is a machine for it under the sink at the kitchen. This is the only thing that came to my mind about water supplies :D Your way is of course more difficult but i think it's nice to have a access to clean water directly. 💜

[@codenameeaglecooldown900]

In Yakutia bacteria cannot live, even if you guys purified water in Turkey the result not more purified than water in Yakutia. There's no salmonela, theres no e-coli what else you want to purify. + Even if you ate raw food without cooked first you wont get sick.

[@zeynepun.]

@@codenameeaglecooldown900 of course, I meant purifying water is a healthier choice than non purified water we drink here. I didn't compare Yakutsk's water and our water.

[@sandhra4533]

Hi Maria.your videos helped me to understand a different lifestyle and and a lot new things that I don't know.you are a nice person.The way you describe the things are very clear and polite.Expecting more good videos about yakut and yakutian culture.Love from kerala India

[@ilarious5729]

Nice to hear a foreigner pronounce sauna correctly, not like the English saw-na lol. 😄 At our cabin we pull drinking water from the well, and washing water from the lake next to the cabin, so in winter we have to make a hole in the ice like you guys. But at the city apartment there's regular tap water. I was about to complain that I have to go out now to -17°C but it ain't that bad now that I think of it.

[@ianpearce5745]

Thank you Maria for showing us inside your home and how everything works in such extreme temperatures. Here in the south of England where I live the coldest I have seen it is -9 only up in the North it gets colder -20 .

[@thecountrybunkins8896]

We live very remotely. Our water comes from a solar powered well. We carry water in buckets to our house that is located 100 feet away. We use buckets with a toilet seat on top for a toilet. Our water is heated by our wood stove which in winter we also cook on it. Spring summer, fall we use a propane stove. We can also power our well with a generator. Our house uses solar and generator for electricity.

[@austinbradshaw5021]

We trained birds to collect little buckets of water and we return them seed for their work. This brings in several gallons a day.

[@johnwakamatsu3391]

I live in Los Angeles and water is provided from the tap and can be used for drinking, cooking, washing clothes or for bathing. There are some cities that have two water systems one for drinking and the other for the toilet or watering the garden. I have only seen frost once in forty years and Los Angeles has two season summer and autumn. I like watching your videos and see how other people live in the world.

[@ivorp.5518]

Hi Maria...thank you for your interesting videos. I live in Ottawa, capital of Canada. The last week, it has been -25 to -30 degrees Celsius and people complain how cold it is. I tell them to stop complaining and look at your channel. Take care! Ivor in Ottawa

[@saradiakar329]

Thank you Maria for sharing the life style out there. Everytime we learn something new from your video. I am from Assam, India and in winter temperature goes only upto 4 to 5degrees which is not even in comparison with your place. However, as for domestic purpose, we have pipelines from government having water supplies from mainland river. For, drinking purpose these water need extra treatment like we use filter otherwise without which there remains a high chance of getting disease.

[@aashishgaurav1]

We Indians are so fortunate to get water so easily and reckless to waste it.

[@ssrakeshsharma]

Lots of Love and respect from remotest part of INDIA Mana Village. Right from your first Video and till date you say "Hi Everyone It's Maria..." Your smile looks so real in all videos brings smile on my face. Good Luck for winter season.

[@janne-seta]

Yes, please make a video of the Sakha sauna. Would be interesting to compare it to the Finnish one 🙂

[@pltjess]

I'm excited to see it, too!

[@Tapio1966]

Me too (from Finland too 😊)

[@docmcgee3483]

Me as well! From Alaska.

[@МагомедАжуфамунедов]

@@docmcgee3483 where alaska

[@godanddevil.5331]

BUY GOLD AND SILVER. METALS ARE MORE ESSENTIAL THAN CRYPTO. FOR EVERY COUNTRY ECONOMY METALS ARE ESSENTIAL....THEY ARE NEW CRYPTO......

[@mariskabrokamp7171]

Hi Maria wonderful that you are sharing your live for other people in the world to see. Here in Canada (rural Ontario) we have a well the water is heated by an outdoor wood furnace. Love your dog!

[@joebrookes6290]

I’ve never really thought about it but in the UK most our water comes from reservoirs in hilly areas. Tap water is absolutely fine to drink though can taste different in different areas (hard vs soft water)

[@an-cx1ho]

ive never been to uk but something tells me life in uk is overall much easier than in yakutia

[@LazyCookPete]

Water is supplied as a service where I live but I don't like the chlorine in the water they use to keep it safe, so I always filter our drinking and cooking water using the Berkey system. I capture rain water for watering my garden in the summer, but if I have to use the mains water I always let it stand overnight before I use it. I add a little vitamin C powder to mains water, which helps mitigate some of the non-gaseous chemicals in the water. This keeps my garden vegetables healthy and abundant. Big love from Wales in the UK!

[@aruvielevenstar3944]

I live in the Netherlands and we have a collective watersystem. The water in our country that comes from the watertap is actually ground water. It is collected in large basins and devided among every house. We have a lot of water in our country because it rains a lot. Winters are mild and summers too. The collected water is cleaned and filtered and we can drink it from the water tap in our house and we shower and bathe in it as well.

[@frankburns8871]

I like watching vids like this when I'm shivering at 0 or slightly below F. Puts things in perspective!

[@raymonddumaguit15]

Here in the Philippines, we have our own water tanks here taken from a well/ground water making it easy access for water from faucets

[@dublintvcontent2023]

Such a simple, yet informative, insightful, inspiring video. Really great to see this. Having a window into a whole other world and way of living wonderful.

[@donyboy73]

very interesting! greetings from canada

[@VioletDisregard23]

Your voiceover on this video is amazing unintentional ASMR. I watch your videos out of interest and for the ASMR tingles 😌

[@pikisflais]

Here in my city, in the gulf of mexico, we are a mountainous area with lots of rivers. unfortunately most of those rivers are dead and have become sewage. Because of this, this city takes (steals) its water from one of the last healthy rivers in a neighbor municipality, and buys the rest from another state. Sometimes, when the other states gets angry at our state government, they close the pipes that supply this city until they agree with whatever they want. It is funny for me because i have always believed this city in particular wastes a lot of water, and that it is the governments fault our river are dead, since they allow companies to throw their waste in the rivers.

[@kwil5379]

We live in Southern Ohio (USA) on a farm that is very far from all utilities. The only utility we have is electricity. We burn coal in a stove for heat and catch rain water off of the roof for all our water. IT is stored in a 6000 gallon tank under ground and then pumped into the house. It then goes through a series of filters and finally a UV light to kill any bacteria and this is the water we use for everything. We have had our water tested and it is cleaner and has an alkaline level better than all other municipal water companies around.

[@IcelandicNativecitywalk]

It must be freaking cold there. Can't wait to visit and capture such a beautiful and breathtaking place .

[@DipityS]

We are piped into the water grid - being in the town - but as we live in Australia Queensland - there's a lot of water consciousness and we conserve as much as possible. We've just come off drought conditions to level 1 water restriction rules a few months back after having a very wet December - when the region is in a more restricted level you're not allowed to use the water to do certain tasks - like using the hose to wash your car - and there are limits and off days for watering the garden and you need to water at certain hours on your on days. Thank you for sharing part of what it's like to live where you do - it's absolutely fascinating.

[@erlendurgudmundsson5100]

I live in Iceland and we have fresh clean running water all year round. It comes from natural caverns under the lava fields or from underground wells. It hardly gets colder than -10 C on average around the coast but colder inland to -30 C

[@Hidfors]

I will never again complain about the winters in southern Sweden 😂 Well, now I'll have to check out the rest of your channel, very interesting.

[@fredochs]

I live in the countryside in Iowa (USA), so we have our own well. The well and pipes are deep enough that it never freezes, and we don't have permafrost so no worries about melting causing soil collapse. If you had a well + heating tape in Yakutia, you would worry about soil collapse, right?

[@Liv1nMohawk]

Same but living in Canada

[@NoamTheGOAT50]

Thank you for these great videos, I hope everything is well with you and your family and friends these days!

[@Michael-fw5ef]

I like that your entire family lives together. I tried to ask my parents to live with me - told them I would pay for all their living costs - but they refused. That's typical of caucasion parents in North America.

[@laelaawalia366]

I live in Indonesia where fresh and clean water is in almost everywhere. Nothing special to do when we have to get water. Just make a well and we can get water easily. Watching your video makes me more thankfull of my living place. Nice video! 😊😊😊

[@waltervega8730]

Maria, thank you for sharing your life with us! So very interesting to see how other people live in other parts of the world. Im sure its alot of work, but must be nice to live from what the environment gives you, with respect back to it. How does the city supply water?

[@imaculatabatmomolin5348]

I live in tropical country that have so much source of clean water...your hard work to get the water really amasing..hope you live your life with happy😇😇