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MALIN, Ore. (AP) â Judy and Jim Shanks know the exact date their homeâs well went dry â June 24.
Since then, their life has been an endless cycle of imposing on relatives for showers and laundry, hauling water to feed a small herd of cattle and desperately waiting for a local well-drilling company to make it to their name on a monthslong wait list.
The couple s well is among potentially hundreds that have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon-California border suffering through a historic drought, leaving homes with no running water just a few months after the federal government shut off irrigation to hundreds of the region s farmers for the first time ever.
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Homes in West lose water as wells run dry in drought-ravaged basin
Potentially hundreds of wells have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon-California border.
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and NATHAN HOWARDAssociated Press
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Rylee Buckley, 17, fills a 7-gallon water container with a neighbor’s hose Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Klamath Falls, Ore. Her family’s house well ran dry in May following a historic drought in southern Oregon.
Nathan Howard/Associated Press
MALIN, Ore. Judy and Jim Shanks know the exact date their home’s well went dry – June 24.
Since then, their life has been an endless cycle of imposing on relatives for showers and laundry, hauling water to feed a small herd of cattle and desperately waiting for a local well-drilling company to make it to their name on a monthslong wait list.
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