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    Household water wells are drying up in record numbers as California drought worsens

    by Dorany Pineda and Gabrielle Lamarr Lemee, Los Angeles Times Dec 14, 2022 5 minutes
    Sandra Sevilla stands next to the well that dried up as a result of the ongoing drought at her family’ s ranch in an unincorporated area of Madera County.

    CORNING, Calif. — For almost four decades, water flowed faithfully from Fred and Robin Imfeld’s private well here in rural Tehama County, a region where thirsty orchards of walnuts, almonds, plums and olives stretch across thousands of acres.

    But that reliable supply of household water began to sputter last year, and then ceased completely this summer amid California’s driest three-year period on record.

    Now, the Imfelds and other residents here are scrambling to find alternate water sources, and trucking in supplies to fill massive, portable water tanks that have sprouted up throughout the community.

    “I call it a silent disaster because it’s not like hurricanes where everything is getting blown over,” Fred Imfeld, 70, said of the well failures. “It’s just like, one after another of these wells just keep popping dry,

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