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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This Townsends video explains it really well. Here he is digging his own well with just tools of the time and he goes into why digging between high ground and a river will allow the well to fill with water.
There really isn’t too much science or whatever to determine where a well should be placed if you understand the basics. If you dig deep enough between a hill and a river, you will eventually hit water and your well will fill.
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