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>Water wells are simple things, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. It can be important to monitor water levels in a well, and that gets complicated when the well is remote. Commercial solutions exist, of course, but tend to be expensive and even impractical in some cases. That’s where [Hans Gaensbauer]’s low-cost, buoyancy-based well monitor comes in. An Engineers Without Border project, it not only cleverly measures water level in a simple way — logging to a text file on a USB stick in the process — but it’s so low-power that a single battery can run it for years.

Archive: https://archive.today/Is0ji From the post: >>Water wells are simple things, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. It can be important to monitor water levels in a well, and that gets complicated when the well is remote. Commercial solutions exist, of course, but tend to be expensive and even impractical in some cases. That’s where [Hans Gaensbauer]’s low-cost, buoyancy-based well monitor comes in. An Engineers Without Border project, it not only cleverly measures water level in a simple way — logging to a text file on a USB stick in the process — but it’s so low-power that a single battery can run it for years.
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It's designed for 3rd world applications. The well heads are "Sealed" but this is added to the well cap to make it so the cap does not need to be removed to check the water level and adjust the pump as needed.

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Oh so they can’t shit in the well. They will not shit in a toilet but you open a well up the entire village would shit in it.

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Sadly I believe that they would....

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It’s like a kid with a new toy, found a new hole in the ground, or electrical plug, Gotta stick something in it.