Stonelined wells - Traditional fountains - Water troughs

On Agios Efstratios, residents built structures to collect and store water. The fountain, adorned with columns, was the focal point of the old village. Wells were dug where there were indications of water and were circular inside, stone-lined, often projecting slightly above ground. Their mouths were covered with a dressed stone slab that left an opening for the bucket, and were often topped with wood or boulders. Nearby were stone troughs, useful for watering animals or washing clothes. In the fields, the same troughs fed irrigation channels, square or elongated, sometimes simple and sometimes with details such as projections for washing. Water was drawn with a bucket tied to a rope, but there were also mangania (windlasses), wooden or iron, as well as derricks, mechanisms known since antiquity. After the 1968 earthquake, most wells dried up and were abandoned.