A Wellspring of Ingenuity
Readers, to mark our 50th anniversary as a magazine, we’re reprinting some of the more colorful stories from our archive. This story was originally published in July 1972 as “How to Dig a Well for Your Own Fresh Water Supply.” Have you ever dug a well? Tell us about it at Letters@MotherEarthNews.com, and you may end up in the magazine.
Our new Colorado cabin was nearly perfect, except that it didn’t have a water supply, and we didn’t have $1,500 with which to drill a well. So, with a little imagination and a lot
