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Wells are running dry across rural America as the drought settles in, the kitchen tap sputters and the ponds shrink to cracked mud. When a private well fails, there is no utility to call: the family is left hauling water, paying for a deeper well, or watching the livestock and the garden go without. Thirteen rural households filmed it themselves, from a South Arkansas family watching their well dry up in the drought and a well that went dry after eight good years, to a new well dug 700 feet down, a pump that died after one year, a creek in the Ozarks that dried up after thirty years, hay at $200 a bale and a barley crop lost to the drought.
In this video, we look at what these families are living through, what a dry well really costs, and why a backup water plan and stored water matter before the well goes quiet, for American families, their homesteads and their emergency preparedness.
0:00 Intro
0:26 My Well Is Drying Up In South Arkansas Drought
2:16 Well Went Dry After Eight Years Fine
4:14 My Well Pump Died After One Year
5:48 Our $44,000 Well Beat The Drought
6:49 Well Ran Dry, New Well Dug 700 Feet
7:29 Drilling A Well On Raw Desert Land
8:36 Why We Haul Water Instead Of Drilling
9:28 Rainwater Homestead Struggles Through Drought
10:34 Hay Prices Double As Drought Empties Pasture
12:39 Ozarks Creek Dries Up After Thirty Years
13:49 Drought And Overgrazing Cost Him $180K
15:34 Barley Crop Fails From Drought
16:19 $200 A Bale Because Of The Drought
Credit to : Epic Economist