Mark Arax: The Well Fixer’s Warning for California

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August 18, 2021

In this latest round of western drought, desperate voices called for the well fixer at all hours of the day and night, puzzled as to why their pumps were coughing up sand, the water’s flow to their orchards now a trickle.

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