Driving a country road, I passed an old well house. It didn’t look like a wishing well. It looked rustic, more like a shed, a practical structure. I stopped and took a photo of the well. Right by it ...

This stairway leads down tow the largest hand-dug well in the world. Photo by David Kidd I recently flew into Wichita on my way to Greensburg, Kansas. I was there to take pictures of Steve Hewitt, the ...

NEWCASTLE -- Al Smith had a problem. The federal government had given him permission to drill for oil on land just east of Newcastle, but time was running out on the go-ahead. It was either drill it ...

When the dug well on their property ran dry for the first time in its 200 years, Nancy Grove and Peter Gale had to weigh two ...

Few things say “old-time New England” more than getting your water from a dug well, a 20-foot hole in the ground covered with a concrete top that pipes water into your house. But what if there was a ...

Many dug and spring-fed wells, like this one in Pomfret, are running dry this fall. Drilling a new one can be costly. Faye Longo first noticed her spring-fed well was starting to run dry in late July.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is now requiring a more than century year old business in Carlisle to undergo a $25,000 upgrade in order ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — Health officials in Fayette and Kanawha counties warned residents with hand dug wells along Paint Creek on Thursday to not drink the water after a recent chemical spill.