How could the amount of rainfall in a region affect the water level in an ordinary well?

Question

How might an increase in population affect the water levels in ordinary wells?

Answer 1

First of all a well is a hole drilled or bored into the earth to obtain water. If it rains more or less this affects the water table, the level below which the ground is saturated. Any hole in the ground will fill with water when the water-table has been reached. This level often fluctuates with rainfall.

If there is an an increase in population, there becomes a problem lets say 100 people were supplied with water from a well in a particular region, when the population increases to 500 people, this same well needs to meet the +400 peoples needs, as the population grows the water in the wells will get used up and people will either need to dig deeper into the ground or find other areas to dig wells in.

=) Carol