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2 unusual facts about water well


Arsenical keratosis

Arsenic is also found to be an environmental contaminant in drinking water (well water) and an occupational hazard for miners and glass workers.

Madron Parish Church

The work that this involved was extensive and involved extending to the north which in turn involved demolishing a cottage and compensating the leaseholder, diverting the stream from Madron Well and raising the ground level 6 feet to meet the general level.


Dando Drilling

The Company was founded by a Mr Duke and a Mr Ockenden who in 1867 sank the first Tubewell to ensure a clean water supply in Littlehampton, England, following an outbreak of Cholera.

Françonne

This quarter existed until 1348, when the inhabitants of Les Josiols were assassinated due to rumours that they had caused the outbreak of the pest in Mirabel by poisoning the wells.

Horaglanis krishnai

Horaglanis krishnai, the Indian blind catfish, is a species of airbreathing catfish endemic to India where it is found in wells in the area of Kottayam in Kerala.

Kolbari

It is known for having a sand-filter well that purifies water drawn from the muddy fishponds, the only source for drinking water in the area.


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Clayton Mark

Clayton Mark (June 30, 1858 – July 7, 1936), one of the pioneer makers of steel pipe in the United States, was an industrialist in the Chicago area who founded the Mark Manufacturing Company in 1888, a firm for the fabrication and sale of water-well supplies and Clayton Mark and Company in 1900.

Eve Andree Laramee

This work zeroes-in on sites where Uranium mining/milling, plutonium production for nuclear weaponss and the nuclear energy industry have contaminated surface water, well water and deep aquifer water with radioactive isotopes and her work archives this atomic legacy.

Malootty

It is a Malayalam ripoff of the English movie Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, based on the true story of the rescue of 18-month-old Jessica McClure in a water well.

Monastery of Saint Mina

At a certain spot near a water well at the end of Lake Mariout, not far from Alexandria, the camel stopped and wouldn't move.

Stansbury Park, Utah

Originally, the golf course was watered from another deep well within the Park boundary at the southeast corner, but that water had such a high level of hardness that it was abandoned in 1985 and the potable-water well is now also used to serve the golf course.