How did destroying driving licenses in Palestine preserve Israeli security? How was it preserved by digging up runways, uprooting olive trees, and fouling wells?

In rural areas, where the majority of the poor live, technical and financial support from government and local authorities for digging and maintaining wells or other water sources can help to expand access to safe drinking water.

They're digging a hole.

Doing what? Breaking stones, digging earth.

Ms. Pera Wells

These are little wells.

You are always digging at me about my clothes.

Dig wells for five years?

The first offshore wells were called whales.

Now imagine archeologists digging through the rubble of one of our cities.

After logging, logging waste prevents reindeer grazing and compacted snow hampers digging.

Spencer Wells builds a family tree for humanity

I've fracked over 3,000 wells in my life.

And the man knows that he doesn't have to do any digging to get roots.

And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form.

Working to help the villagers obtain fresh water from wells.

Now, when we started working deeper and digging deeper, we found that it's an illegal act.

So this piece was great fun because it was two days of digging in soft dirt.

Techno archaeology is digging back and finding past miracles that never happened for good reason, usually.

And they said, Well you can dig. And we decided to dig up, instead of digging down.

And we keep getting wells that are farther away from the ground.

I said, I want to live and dig wells for five years.

So, you know H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, novel and movie.

Since then only 23 permits had been issued to dig new wells.

Olive trees, water resources and wells were damaged or levelled by bulldozers.

Wells, particularly on St. Croix, supply the remainder of the freshwater necessary.

In fact, there are artesian wells where water springs right into the air.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

They are digging in. And they're looking for ways to extract value out of every purchase that they make.

And here's a very special moment, when my mother and myself were digging up some remains of human ancestors.

And when you start digging into the sources, you can go further and further than you ever could before.

The evidence further shows that the pumping was from different wells where contamination had not affected the groundwater and there is no evidence that the use of different wells to pump the groundwater resulted in increased costs.

After I was invited by TED, I did some digging, because that's what we do, to know about my host.

It will cause rising seas. It will cause saline deposited into wells and into lands.

There had to have been 800,000 wells fracked in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas in that aquifer.

If we can create markets for these artists, we will not have to employ them for digging earth and breaking stones.

The digging work led to the removal of a hill on the contested land quite close to houses owned by Palestinians.

And what they're doing is very interesting they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots, the grubs, the larvae of flies.

Every year, it begins with a snowflake, and by digging into fresh snow, we can see how this process is ongoing today.

On 3 May, a settler from Kedumim chemically contaminated agricultural wells belonging to Palestinian farmers from Qalqilya.

Approximately thirteen kilometers past Fizuli on the main road, the FFM noted a back hoe actively digging up irrigation pipes from the vineyards.

The foundation of this curve is that we keep losing the wells that are close to the ground.