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The quality of the well water can be significantly increased by lining the well, sealing the well head, fitting a self-priming hand pump, constructing an apron, ensuring the area is kept clean and free from stagnant water and animals, moving sources of contamination (pit latrines, garbage pits, on-site sewer systems) and carrying out hygiene ...
A tankhouse (also spelled tank house or tank-house) is a water tower enclosed by siding. Tankhouses were part of a self-contained domestic water system supplying the house and garden, developed before the advent of electricity and municipal water mains. The system consisted of a windmill, a hand-dug well and the tankhouse.
Archaeological evidence and old Chinese documents reveal that the prehistoric and ancient Chinese had the aptitude and skills for digging deep water wells for drinking water as early as 6000 to 7000 years ago. [citation needed] A well excavated at the Hemedu excavation site was believed to have been built during the Neolithic era. [21]
Olympia Brewery, Olympia, Washington (see Olympia Brewing Company#Use of artesian water) Polk Theater well, Lakeland, Florida; possibly used in the loop of the first air conditioning system in America; Pryor Avenue Iron Well, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Southwestern Lunatic Asylum–Hot Wells, San Antonio, Texas; Sulphur Springs, Tampa, Florida
The Old Well, here in a photo from 1892, served as the campus's sole water source for many years. The Old Well is located between Old East and Old West residence halls. For many years, it served as the sole water supply for the university. In 1897, the original well was replaced and given its present signature structure by university president ...
Chand Baori is a deep four-sided well with a large temple located in the back of the well. [2] The basic architectural aspects of the monumental well consist of a long corridor of steps leading to five or six stories below ground level which can be seen at the site. [3] Chand Baori consists of 3,500 narrow steps over 13 stories. [6]
Deep wells have replaced some of the puquios as a source of water and the number of local people with the expertise to maintain the puquios has diminished. The modest amounts of water supplied by the puquios is replenished every year by precipitation at the source of the rivers in the Andes, but the exploitation by deep wells of underground ...
Interior of a brick-lined well in Utrecht, Netherlands. A brick-lined well is a hand-dug water well whose walls are lined with bricks, sometimes called "Dutch bricks" if they are trapezoidal or made on site. The technique is ancient, but is still appropriate in developing countries where labor costs are low and material costs are high.