If there isn't any water under the earth of the mountains, how do the people there have wells?

Question

Also, what about the springs that form streams and the streams form rivers. what about artesion wells?

Answer 1

Theres people there?LOL Seriously if there can be lava why not underground water deep in the earth. Also when it rains the water runs down the mountain sides into the earth,streams and so forth. Stone Mountain Park has many small streams that empty into a large lake-decided to find he source (raining that day) and followed the stream on its bank-ended up at the bottom of th mountain and saw the water running down the sides of the mountain and at the bottom in places looked like small waterfalls then at a later date read that the rain from mountain was the source in a pamphlet that described the park. Follow a river to its source and often a small spring with water coming from beneath the gound. Since the earth is mostly water its not far fetched to thing that through the ages as the lands shifted water trapped beneath.Water and wind can also erode rock and the water can run into evices and form basins of water in the rockDon't think that the mountain can be above a great deal of water for would have no solidity at the bootom of it-would loat away for waater is not still. Water comes from the sky as rain and then feeds the springs,rivers,lakes and so on.

Answer 2

Australia has an artesian basin of water that extends over almost all of the continent. Hydrologists have traced spring water from The Blue Mountains outside Sydney that flows vast distances and resurfaces at the head of the Wyong River.

Answer 3

Wells need rainwater to permeate through layers of soil and collect above an impermeable layer. This is caled an aquifer and can form wherever such conditions exist. A well can then be drilled to reach the aquifer. In the case of an artesian well the water drains into the aquifer from a surrounding region of higher elevation. When a well is drilled into such an aquifer hydrostatic presure causes the water to come to the surface ( the same mechanism provides water pressure in plumbing of houses connected to an elevated tank.)

Answer 4

Where did you hear that there is no water in the earth under mountains? That is known not to be true.

Answer 5

There can be a lot of water in a mountain, but it does depend on how porous the mountain rock is.

Answer 6

Lots of cracks & crevices in rocks & gravel channels in old buried riverbeds underground...

Answer 7

aquafers maintained by melting snow.