The living wisdom: using local well driller knowledge to construct digital groundwater data bases
The study analyses knowledge of well drillers about groundwater aquifers and verify it with scientific data
Author : Adlul Islam, D R Sena, Deepesh Machiwal, Karen Villholth, Sunderrajan Krishnan
In the absence of groundwater instrumentation networks in India, the knowledge of local well drillers about the location, quality, etc of groundwater aquifers is invaluable.