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 mean – the existence of something like “divining rods” suggests that it was very difficult. Divining rods being an old-world scam where you’d hold up these rods and get some spiritual vibration from water:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
If it were an exact and easy science, then such tools would never be possible or make sense
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