Solution Exercise 1
You will have to search the internet to determine if there is an online well records database for your area and, if possible, search the database to identify the type (e.g., does it include domestic wells?) and total number of well records that it contains. Start your search by entering the name of your governing unit at a specific level (e.g., country, province, state, county, district, or similar entity) followed by “water well database” until you find a promising link then follow that link. As an example, a search for “British Columbia well database” in December 2021 yielded the result shown below.
Click on the link to the webpage “Groundwater Wells and Aquifers” and then click on the link to download all wells (Well extract). By opening the downloaded file, you can determine how many records are in the database and what type of wells are included.