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I think using the word private is a bit misleading. Ground water is shared among all the well users in the area/water shed. If drank only collected rain water

• codingdave 11y ago
  It depends on the well. My well goes down 65 feet, where it hit a spring, and we have an artesian well off that spring. Every other well within a mile of me had to go down to 225 feet, and they are all certainly sharing a water supply at that level. I do not believe my well shares water with their supply because they have much safer water than I do. We have many more heavy metals in ours, and more arsenic. They run off some basic water filters, and I have a much more complex water treatment system in my basement. I'm not pointing this out just to argue - the point is that those of us on a well do maintain an awareness of where our water comes from and what is in it, probably much more so than those on public water supplies.
• voidlogic 11y ago
  >I think using the word private is a bit misleading. For the purposes of this discussion, unless one of your neighbors is pumping chlorine into the ground I think its fine. Also private vs public here refers to the ownership of the water infrastructure.