How to find water on the site? There are several ways.

One of the main questions that arise before the owner of the acquired land - how to find water on the site?

Even if your site is located near a pond (pond, lake) or a river, it will not solve the problem of an autonomous full-fledged water supply. As a rule, water from open water bodies is suitable only for irrigation, but not for domestic needs and, especially, not for drinking and cooking.

The source of water supply should be chosen in accordance with your requirements and geophysical features of the site. The best option is to invite specialists, they know how to find water on the site, determining the composition of soil layers, their depth and thickness, the presence of aquifers and their water content.

Underground waters are of several types:

• Ground water (so-called "perchage");
• Water interplastic;
• Artesian (self-pouring) waters.

The choice and source of water supply depends on the type of groundwater that prevails.

Close groundwater (perch water ) is easily accessible, but this is the reason for their shortcomings: their level is variable, depends on external conditions (drought, heavy rains), pollution by sewage or sediments.

Inter-layer waters can be pressure and non-pressure, they lie much deeper than the surface, so their level is relatively constant, and the quality is better.

Pressure water (self-pouring) is known to us as "keys" or artesian.

On the "keys" are usually put wells. If the layers with water lie deep, they use drilling wells, the depth of which is quite significant, but the water is clean and transparent.

Many decide to find water on the plot on their own, and this is possible.

The easiest way to do this is if it is a question of surface waters. Dowsing, indication by wire frames - ancient and tried-and-true methods.

"Close water" is noticeable even to an inexperienced gardener.

Nature has been used by people for a long time about water. The type of vegetation, plant species, behavior of some animals testified that there are underground waters in this area. Another thing is that the depth of occurrence of the water layer, its volumes remained unknown.

So, before you look for water on the site, pay attention to the following symptoms:

• Abundance of hygrophilous plants;
• Density of vegetative thickets;
• Bright and rich green color.

If the wild currant, nettle, horse sorrel has thickly grown, and apple and plum, on the contrary, grow poorly and wilt, it means that the ground waters lie close, the soil is wet even in hot weather.

The behavior of animals and insects will tell you how to find water on the site.

In your holiday village there may not be a horse (feeling wet, it beats with a hoof), but the dog digs a pit in hot weather where the land is cool, wet.

Where there is a lot of moisture, the mouse will not dig a hole, the chicken will not make a nest, red ants will not settle. But if in the evenings clouds of mosquitoes wind above the earth, it can be said with certainty that there is water in this place.

In the old days, there was a very common way to find water on the site - dowsing, they still use it. Deep water occurrence it is almost impossible to determine, but the depth of 10-15 meters for vines is available. To search you need to take a freshly cut rod with a fork (slingshot), and in clear, dry weather, go around with the site.

Keep the rod for the "horns", not too hard, walk slowly. There, where the twig will bend, there, for certain, there is water.

The modern way of indicating is based on the same principle. Two aluminum wires (length 40 cm), bent at right angles, are inserted into a hollow wooden tube. They should rotate freely in it. If they are 180 degrees apart from each other, then there is no water, and if they intersect, then, most likely, there are aquifers close up here, you can dig a well or drill a well.