Janet D. Young, Age 10, Of Walkertown, N.C., for her question;     

How does water get into a well?     

The walls of a well are lined with porous bricks, and water seeps through their fine pores from the surrounding soil. The we dips down into a vast supply of buried water called ground water. This ground water came from rain and melted snow. Some of this moisture sank down and came to rest in underground layers of porous rock. A well must reach down into the reservoir of buried ground water. Its walls keep out the dirt, but they allow the ground water to seep through their pores.

When you take out water, more water seeps into the well from the soggy ground which surrounds it on all sides. This source of water in a well is called the water table.