The well we dug is looking toward the future.

There, just beyond the palms that dug the well, was an “invisible world of water.”
~ We dug, we waited, and the water that connected us to the future ~

The most thrilling moment of the Geo Tour
was when the kids dug a well with a double shovel (a post-hole digger).

When they heard we’d be digging a well, the kids were fired up—
“Let’s find water!” they said, taking turns and digging with all their might
using the double shovel.

That day, we dug to nearly two meters deep.
“Isn’t it about time the water showed up?” everyone wondered with high hopes…
But still, no water.

I’d imagined that once you dig a well, water would just gush right out.
But nature’s water doesn’t rush out on our schedule.

By the end of the day, the soil was only slightly damp.
Everyone felt a little disappointed—“Guess it didn’t come out…”

But the next day, when our staff peered into the well…
there was water pooled up to about 30 centimeters (around one foot) above the ground!

In other words, the water was there all along,
and it had been slowly, patiently seeping into the well over time.

Invisible water, moving gradually through the ground and gathering in one place—
spending a day to feel that flow with their own bodies is an experience
that will surely stay with the children.

This well will one day be fitted with a water-level sensor,
becoming a “future observation point” where we can watch water’s movements in real time.

In other words—
the well dug by the children has become the starting line for a future in Rusutsu
where we see nature through data.