{"id":79,"date":"2022-04-21T17:42:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/chapter\/solution-exercise-1\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:37:37","slug":"solution-exercise-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/chapter\/solution-exercise-1\/","title":{"raw":"Solution Exercise 1","rendered":"Solution Exercise 1"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"solution-exercise-1\">\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">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 \u201cwater well database\u201d until you find a promising link then follow that link. As an example, a search for \u201cBritish Columbia well database\u201d in December 2021 yielded the result shown below.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/04\/image20.png\" alt=\"Screen shot of internet search result\" width=\"791\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Click on the link to the webpage \u201cGroundwater Wells and Aquifers\u201d 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.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/chapter\/exercise-1\/\">Return to Exercise 1<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"solution-exercise-1\">\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">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 \u201cwater well database\u201d until you find a promising link then follow that link. As an example, a search for \u201cBritish Columbia well database\u201d in December 2021 yielded the result shown below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/04\/image20.png\" alt=\"Screen shot of internet search result\" width=\"791\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Click on the link to the webpage \u201cGroundwater Wells and Aquifers\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/chapter\/exercise-1\/\">Return to Exercise 1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":28,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-79","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":147,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/79\/revisions\/266"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/147"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/79\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/water-well-record-databases-and-their-uses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}