Water

Wow, that's deep....... you sure you have a water table down there somewhere to begin with? What does the drilling company say? Have they got other wells in the area and say that this is a normal depth? You might want to ask around with other companies in your area too and get some insight from them as to what is the average depth at which they're finding reliable water sources in the area.

I'm on well water here in Macaé - RJ, have no idea how deep the well is, but I can ask the owner. You should be aware the well water here will probably not be fit for drinking purposes. What we've got is loaded with sulfur and quite turbid. We drink and cook with nothing but bottled water.

Cheers,
James            Expat-blog Experts Team

We are on well water, too.  Ours is 80 m deep, and the water is excellent.  We can drink it unfiltered and untreated.  In this area, there are several companies that bottle water to sell.

Should add-- this is a drilled well, not a hand-dug "cacimba".

well water
there is loads of stuff on the internet on how well's should be finished off and the main one is to make your well sealed down to at least 3 meters, due to ground water contamination, that how my well be done, the other thing that should be done is to cap the top of the well, so no sun light can get in
I will have to dig my well to at least 10 meters so I have to remove around 70 tone's of what every I find down there, and at the moment its a low grad sand stone, but most of the wells around here in Iguaba Grande, are down 5 to 6 meters and then rock,
I will have to dig throw the rock, that's why my well is almost 2 meters in diameter, so I have a big working space
I did thought of having a bore hole drilled, but what I know of all the bore hole drillers, in this part of brazil, is they cant get throw the rock,

Ah now I see where I was mistaken about your first posting. I've been here in Brazil so long that I've adopted the Brazilian numeric system. Where instead of a decimal point they use a comma, and the decimal point where we would use a comma.

I thought you were saying your well was three thousand five hundred meters deep!!!  Too funny! 

that would mean ive hand dug 21,000 tons of what ever is in the ground,
do you know the deepest hand dug well in the world is 1400 feet deep and in England

Well, what can I say to "dig" my way out of this one, except maybe that I'm getting pretty OLD???

digging is a bit of a pun, but a good one
I do the digging and you do the helping, and a very good job your doing, I fell if it was not for you, there be a lot of less pats out there, so meany thanks from me and all the others that never say thanks
right off to dig another 3 tone's out before the sun gets in my hole