I really don’t get it #food

[imasunshine]

I think a river sink would be cool in a greenhouse set up but not sanitary for kitchens or anything

[audreyc.]

I have so many questions. If it rains does it flood? Could a fish come swimming thru? How clean is is that water? Your cleaning your dishes, but that's a lot of sink to clean. There has to be build up, if not food then algae.

So many questions.

[ArianeThiele]

This house is in Brazil, and the owner of the house has already said that the water from the river spring that she uses is drinkable and that the water after being used goes to another part of the river. This type of "water corridor" is used in houses in the up-ountry. My great-aunt's house had two of these "corridors": one for washing clothes and another in the kitchen.

[Marcelo-msod]

This looks like its in rural Brazil, seen plenty of these.
Water usually comes from a small spring, so no fish and minimal dirt. There are grades to impede you from losing utensils and as far as sanitary goes this is as good as it can get in the middle of nowhere.

[ninhanormand]

This is in Brazil. It's a spring of water that runs through her land. Isn't really the river running through the house. They diverted some part of the spring water to run through the kitchen that is a little separate out of the house. More like a patio cooking area.

[larryd]

You can AND SHOULD have some meshes at the source and the drain of the river sink. Otherwise, as you mentioned the dishes and cutlery would wander off into the seven seas and worse: rats would swim into your kitchen and cook up some fancy ratatouille.

[dizzlethe]

OK for all that are talking about bacteria an such. From the ones I have seen (pretty common in the area I grew up) the water comes from springs that have some of the cleanest water in the world. The water then goes to a "feeder" pond system. For the ones w/o a feeder system and it would go to the stream they would have a 2/3stage gravity filter that was cleaned 2-3times a year

[KS]

In north of Brazil they uses this system to wash dishes and laundry. You can close the water flow after you are done with it. For poor communities they use homemade soap and sand to polish pots an pans.

[papatoni]

As a kitchen witch i love this. This hits me in my cottage core heart.

[Onyx-ribq]

Not to mention literally any spider could just pop through the opening

[StephanieBacks]

I watched a documentary with something like this in rural japan. And yes theyvhad fish. They would leave dirty dishes and let the fish clean it up. Then wash them with biodegradable soap. I will say, they did rinse off the soap with tap water as a final rinse. But the documentary said the water was so clean it was drinkable. The only 'problem' is the humidity in the house and it was very cold in winter to wash dishes.

[UhDoggo_]

I would always accidentally drop things into there if I had it

[NephusReins]

My dad has a natural spring house on his property that looks similar to this. The water bubbles right out of the ground constantly. He doesn't use the spring house, because he doesn't have to, but the spring is definitely more safe than the water we get from the tap. His well is tapped in to that same spring water. Edit: And yes even when it's dry the spring continues to produce water. It's not reliant on rain. Obviously flooding can ruin this. That spring house has has been almost fully submerged during flash flooding.

[gkalenaki]

I remember when I watched a video about it several years ago. Many houses in Japanese villages have this system and guess what, they do soak in their dishes and scrub them without any use of soap because there are fish that are eating the leftovers. I don't remember much of it, but it preety much had to do with "recycling" or something like that. It was quite fascinating to watch!

[joefuentes]

I feel like this is what ancient people used to have for sure

[dirtydan]

Another problem is that water, if feed by a stream, isn’t potable and you will have to be extra vigilant so you don’t give yourself E. Coli

[Karma-jiud]

I was gonna say it's unsanitary, but I'm assuming there's a filter, and on top of that you're putting soap in so it isn't as dirty. But then you have to consider, that soapy water is going back into the river, which is toxic for the wildlife.

[tommiegirl]

I'm a lot more concerned with the cleanliness of the river than I am about losing my forks.

[noelephard]

There is a city in Japan that the whole town has a river flow thru the house using it as cooking water filtered by the fish which are also part of the garbage disposal. I believe there is a YouTube video on it.

[scorpleeon]

My cats would have a field day, I mean pool day wreaking havoc. 😂