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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Honestly it is pretty simple if you look around you. Ever notice that a lot of low lying areas are damp? That puddles form in places that take a while to go away? This can happen for a few reasons but mainly it means water is fairly near the surface. It’s not a guarantee but they dig. Sometimes they might just hit a massively impermeable layer and that’s why water sticks around but they figure it out quickly.
They don’t usually build homes and then worry about water. Civilization followed water, usually rivers and other areas feeding into them. If they didn’t get good access to water quickly, there just wouldn’t be a well or homes there.
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