
How well are our wells?
April 25, 2007
Open wells have a 5000 year history. They liberated humankind from
the tyranny of rivers and lakes. When humans found that you could
dig a hole in the ground and get water that must have been a Eureka
moment. This hole in the ground lined with stone came to be called a
well. Wonder why. We are on a journey to find out what happened to
the well. Do they exist? How do people use it? Are there new ones
being built? How can they be revived? Do they fit into a city’s water
management strategy? Surprisingly their relevance seems to have
ben preserved and increased all over the country. We now have to
revive this technology quickly through a process of recharging
rainwater into the shallow aquifer.