{"id":59140,"date":"2021-08-28T08:33:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59140"},"modified":"2021-08-28T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:33:46","slug":"homes-lose-running-water-in-klamath-basin-as-houses-compete-with-farmers-ranchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59140","title":{"rendered":"Homes lose running water in Klamath Basin as houses compete with farmers, ranchers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homes lose running water in Klamath Basin as houses compete with farmers, ranchers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Water well pump servicers with TW Wells get a water well outside Klamath Falls running again on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n

JPR News<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Homes in rural areas of the Klamath Basin have lost running water as their wells fail. Part of the reason: more farmers and ranchers are pumping water from underground than any other year, because they didn\u2019t get any irrigation water from a nearby lake.<\/p>\n

In a small residential town called Midland outside Klamath Falls, Terry Smith stands in her driveway with her neighbor\u2019s garden hose in hand.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s been her primary source of water since the well to her own home went dry several weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no water,\u201d Smith says, exasperated. \u201cI can\u2019t take a bath. I can\u2019t clean my house. I can\u2019t cook. And now my well is probably not going to work. I\u2019ve lived in this house for 30 years. This is our retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith is waiting for emergency officials to fill her new storage tank with water, which will eventually be delivered in a tanker normally used for delivering milk. In the meantime, she\u2019s been filling 5-gallon jugs with water at a filling station in Klamath Falls and taking up her neighbor\u2019s offer to use water from their hose.<\/p>\n

When Smith\u2019s well stopped working, she called a contractor to drill it deeper. This was going to be a gamble, since there wasn\u2019t a guarantee that it\u2019d work, and she\u2019d have to pay the contractor several thousand dollars regardless.<\/p>\n

\u201cI keep thinking today\u2019s going to be the day that the [water] tank gets filled,\u201d Smith says. \u201cToday\u2019s going to be the day when the well gets drilled. But it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Homes lose running water in Klamath Basin as houses compete with farmers, ranchers Water well pump servicers with TW Wells get a water well outside Klamath Falls running again on Aug. 5. JPR News Homes in rural areas of the Klamath Basin have lost running water as their wells fail. Part of the reason: more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31670,299,13767,31667,31669,31671,866,31668],"class_list":["post-59140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-april-ehrlich","tag-farming","tag-homes","tag-klamath-basin","tag-opb","tag-ranchers","tag-water","tag-water-wells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59141,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59140\/revisions\/59141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}