Q. I live in a big city and am tired of the chlorinated and polluted water that flows through the city water mains. Is it possible to have my own well water like people out in the country have? How ...

Drilling a water well in the Hill Country of Texas, where the terrain is predominantly limestone, can be costly. A 650-foot well with a proper setup, including a pressure tank and reservoir, can cost ...

Tens of thousands of homes in southeastern Colorado draw water from private wells. They tap into aquifers stressed by drought and growing demand, like in the Denver Basin or San Luis Valley. But the ...

When I was one, my family moved from a large farmhouse in northwestern Vermont into a small cabin my parents had built at the edge of a nearby hardwood forest. The cabin featured neither electricity ...

This will be my last tout of Aspen/Atlantic Ideas Festival sessions. The video is not yet up on the main Aspen archive site, here, but please check in a few days to see if they've posted a July 9 ...

Reporting from TERRA BELLA, Calif. — On a dusty clearing between a fallow wheat field and wilting orange groves, Steve Arthur’s crew of two mud-splattered well drillers worked furiously to deliver a ...

For many Texans, there is nothing as refreshing as a drink of cool, clear water from a well drilled deep underground. Whether it is for drinking, watering gardens or caring for livestock, water from ...

The prolonged drought has made one of Oxnard’s wells run dry, so a small water district is planning to drill deeper. With the City Council approval on Tuesday, the Rio Manor Mutual Water Co. will ...

Q: I live in a big city and am tired of the chlorinated and polluted water that flows through the city water mains. Is it possible to have my own well water like people out in the country have? How ...