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!!!!!!!!

[@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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[@godanddevil.5331]

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[@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).

[@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

[@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

[@LifeinYakutia]

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

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

@@LifeinYakutia 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]

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

[@devinnguyen9038]

@@getting_an_earn they are not Chinese

[@beskia4547]

​@@getting_an_earn They are completely different from the Chinese

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@alexsandersoares7704]

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

[@curiouslass4280]

Her voice is so soothing. Smooth and soothing.

[@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]

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[@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.

[@dgodrummer8110]

and we'll be the survivors when the zombie apocalypse begins. haha

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[@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!

[@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

[@briantipton2905]

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

[@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 ?

[@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

[@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..

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 :-)

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@polaroid_people4676]

I live in Arizona and it is a desert. we dont get a lot of rain and theres only natural rivers up north so we preserve waters in dams in northern Arizona and it gets piped to all the other cities. As for drinking water, the tap water isnt very safe to drink and doesnt taste good so most people use water filters. There are also water fill locations where u can put in your five gallon tank and refill it with fresh water for only a dollar(this is what me and my family do)

[@WillowEVMakesSongs]

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

[@ritvayt]

We are really interested in your sauna, and waiting for the video of it ;) Plan to build one myself, so it would be useful, too :D I live in Hungary, so water is supplied via underground tubes into each house and apartment. As here is a much warmer climate, it does not freeze, but if the home is not heated, you have to empty the tubes to avoid freezing damage to them :)

[@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 😃❤

[@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...

[@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

[@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 🤣

[@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?

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@PHIFLOHILSTE]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@karoonboomie2813]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@LifeinYakutia]

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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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......

[@quailman8238]

Your voice is so soothing its ASMR to me

[@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.

[@reneeupdike2220]

We live in the mountains and very rural. We had a deep well dug and have a pump that pumps our water to a holding tank. This keeps our water pressure regulated. When we turn on a faucet or shower we have water. Our water has a lot of iron so we have the water run through a large filter as it comes to the house. We have to change this filter out about every 3 months.

[@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! 💙

[@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.

[@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.

[@alex_stanley]

I live in rural Iowa USA, and the water supply in my house is a 15,000 gallon rain water cistern with pond water backup. The water is filtered down to one micron and disinfected with UV light. For drinking water, I have a reverse osmosis filter.

[@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.

[@gregd.88]

When you live off grid, you do what you have to do. That is life!!!

[@stivensbanks]

I just discovered your channel and I'm amazed. I'm learning Russian and your video was the first one that popped up when I opened youtube today. I loved it 🥰 Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@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.

[@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. ❤️💚☘️

[@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

[@jamesthompson3099]

Here in rural northern Illinois in the USA we are fortunate that the temperature rarely drops below -30c so our small town can run water pipes from wells to homes just a meter or so under the ground and they won’t freeze. That means we can have running water all year. You do have to be careful and not run any inside pipes to close to the outside walls as they may freeze and burst and cause a big mess. Thank you for showing us how you get water during winter. I never knew that before!

[@micachyanne4281]

I live in Idaho in the USA and I live in the mountains off grid. We fill 5 gal jugs in town to provide water at home. Soon we will be catching rain water and it will fill our 275 gal tank and we will filter for all purpose use! Also we have a spring that we will use 🙂 Thanks for sharing, I love your videos!

[@donyboy73]

very interesting! greetings from canada

[@robertlove2168]

Thanks for showing me this part of the world. Where I live, we don't really have winter. Only a few cool nights. You have a lot of challenges I hadn't thought of. I hope you''ll show us what summer is like later in the year.

[@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?

[@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.

[@richardcaplin4718]

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

[@MP-zf7kg]

I was a little surprised you don't just melt snow, but then I figured you folks had worked out the best solution.

[@youtubeuser6418]

We have a well and our water comes into the house easily but it's extremely rusty. There are actual chunks of rust in it. It's the color of pure orange rust. So we have 2 very expensive systems that run constantly to filter the water. Our plumber has to clean the systems out every 4-6 months. The systems will last 12-15 years and then we have to buy new. Even though we have the systems running our water is still a little rusty. We get rust stains on our appliances, our whites become dingy after awhile and my blonde hair can get an orange tint to it. I have a 5 gallon water cooler that I use for drinking cuz I don't want to be drinking the rusty water. It is a hassle but not as much as what you go through!! We live in Minnesota USA.

[@JoniAntonio]

I live in new england and want to move down to south america, i am tired of having to be limited two months out of the year, January and February, I can't imagine living this limited 9 months out of the year. My respects! thank you for sharing your lifestyle with us.

[@dragonarms77]

its amazing to see how you can survive in such cold weather.Things that for us like water is a struggle over there.very interesting videos.

[@oswig1768]

The effort you go through just to live in Siberia is commendable.

[@harryv6147]

Maria, I just started watching your videos. This amazing to see as I live in the USA in Delaware and it has never got as cold as it is in Yakutia! Thank you for sharing. Your videos are well done and very interesting to me. I will be leaving more comments on other videos you made as I watch them!

[@lukrin3482]

It's amazing how casually you stand outside in such freezing temperatures! ☺️

[@bradbehning5592]

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

[@KV-rs6de]

Hi, Maria. I guess people in Yakutia must be very healthy&strong, because they have to work hard to get the basic needs such as water supple, lifting big barrels or buckets of water or big chuck of ice is not an easy task at all. Love your videos. Thank you so much. Just wondering when people get sick, where is your nearest hospital or drug store!

[@USNveteran]

After watching this video I don't think I will ever take for granted just being able to turn on a faucet and get hot or cold water. We live in the south eastern US and are on a city water supply and pay a monthly bill for it.

[@frh343]

It's incredible to see how all of you can survive in this harsh weather, im so Amazed .. Have a nice days! 💖

[@garethjudd5840]

You really have the most wonderful relaxing voice. Thanks for all your videos.

[@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.

[@filipasales9291]

My Grandparents lived in the city like me but they had farmhouses. I remember still in the 80's that we had no water in the farmhouse. We would get it from the small river in the farm and fill up cans very much like you are doing. The drinking water came from a fountain and was carried back then in very large clay pots. This was in the South of Portugal were the temperature reaches very often 40 degrees so the clay refresh the water and it tasted so good. Also because of the heat we used a lot of water for bathing. The truth is that when you're used to something you don't even notice it as it is part of your daily life. Hugs from Portugal.

[@AnaMazuera20]

hello good day my name is Ana and I live in a country called Colombia - South America .... tropical climate, lots of sun and heat. I have seen several videos about Yakutia, the truth is that I have loved seeing how the human being adapts to any climate. A giant hug. PS: I went to google to write to you in English, actually my language is Spanish.

[@J10098]

its so cool how the ice in water sounds like it's frying

[@stoneagedjp]

Wow. Yours is a full-time lifestyle. I bet there's something satisfying in that.

[@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.

[@Fivegunner]

Great video! I enjoy watching you videos. Just want tiny correction. I'm Serbia we say boiler (бојлер) as well but in English water heater is what we call boiler and boiler is a furnace for heating water for heating of the house.

[@Tyme_flies]

Not now, but when I was a little girl in Arkansas my grandma lived in the same log cabin her father built when she was little. And we had no running water. We used a outhouse for the bathroom. We use to fill buckets from a spring to wash dishes and clothes with. And we use to get drinking water from a different Hot Springs that ran from underground. This was in the 80s and I'm from Hot Springs, Arkansas . I miss those days even though back then I was embarrassed and hated it. RIP Grandma!

[@Skiskiski]

As a kid, water was pumped and brought into the house daily for drinking, cooking, and bathing. Also, the process was done on weekends for washing clothes in an outdoor Wringer Waher on the back porch.

[@lachin3769]

greetings to all Yakutia from Turkey! Loves

[@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

[@DaeNoctem]

In my area of the United States (north east) water is found in reservoirs and the water is pumped via stations to water mains which then go directly to people’s homes. This video makes me see how spoiled I am. Thank you for sharing your experience!

[@eyup1178]

İzledikçe üşüyoruz. Güzel Video için teşekkür ederiz.

[@henryyu4987]

Although here in the Philippines, we have water supply from the local water company. We still do rain water harvesting. The rain water is used for cleaning of floors, for watering the plants, and to replenish water for the fish pond.

[@andij605]

That's what a my family does in Hungary as well. I moved to the Netherlands, and I feel so frustrated, cause I have no place to collect rainwater here. lol It feels like a waste of drinkwater to water plants.

[@gearshift7176]

The best I can say is we had hand pump on the farm. Really enjoy your videos. Stay Safe

[@Etain10001]

We have a well but the pump is electric and automatically refills the water tank in our house. There is arsenic in our water that naturally occurs in the granite around here, so we have a large water purification system in our basement. We also have a water heater that keeps water hot for us all the time. All of this is run by pipes - outdoor pipes have to be at least a meter underground so they do not freeze. Love from Massachusetts USA

[@bobbyruffin4336]

I love watching your videos I hope you keep making them

[@bobbyrice]

Wow, you people have the fortitude needed to be some of the first colonists on the planet Mars.