How did people know where to dig a well before they had access to technology we have today (or the possibility to use drills we have now that you can use pretty much everywhere and drill deep enough that you’ll find water anyway)?
If you’re only using manual labour, you cannot dig very deep so finding water isn’t guaranteed. So how did they figure out where they should dig to find water? (I mean especially in the context of wells on farms or communal wells in villages.)
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I lived in northern California for a while, public water was limited and couldn’t be used for agricultural production.
My dad calls this old scraggly bearded gold miner who was a spitting imagine of Prospector Pete.
Guy had some kinda stick that he called a “water witch” this thing was supposed to point out the water?
Well my dad ended up listening to him an paid upwards to 30k to have this well dug.
Sure enough……….there was nothing.
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