Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Drilling Deeper For Water Amid Drought

SANTA MARIA VALLEY, Calif. - The drought is keeping local drilling companies busy called out to drill drying up water wells deeper. Farmers, growers and ranchers in the eastern Santa Maria Valley are feeling the effects of the drought. "Dry farming doesn't grow strawberries", says local grower and farmer Randy Sharer, "if we run out of water, we've got a whole bunch of people that work for us who are going to be looking for jobs." Water wells in the eastern Santa Maria Valley are running dry and that means drilling deeper to get that precious resource. "We have to have water to farm, we manage every gallon as efficiently as possible, but when you have wells that go dry, you need to", Sharer says, "its just more improvement, more capital investment that we need to make to be modern agriculturists in a competitive market." Sharer says says government, the public and agriculture should use this historic dry period to work together to adopt more efficient water use and storage policies...more

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