my dad once told me that someday water
would be more valuable than oil and I
can see that coming up in the future
right now business is unbelievable
the farmers they’re going crazy right
now they cannot get enough wells
we’re booked up for about 12 to 13
months the state of California has very
few regulations on groundwater and
groundwater pumping in fact we’re one of
the freest States as far as that goes
you can pump your well as hard as you
want take as much water out as you want
and it doesn’t matter what you’re doing
to the neighbors so it’s kind of the
Wild West here the dips of the wells are
always increased every year we see it
more and more right now a lot of our
wells are anywhere from 800 to about
1,200 feet the wells are gonna have to
keep going deeper because that’s the
only choice we got is to chase the water
down
it all follows down basically to
no water higher our cost higher it is
for milk and it just kind of trickles
down I don’t even know if we’re gonna
get water out of it it’s just a risk you
take basically I guess
we have about seven drill rigs most of
the rigs are run in 24 hours this
equipment is extremely high maintenance
it’s a very specialized item to run you
got to be able to feel what the rigs
doing listening to it moan and groan
just kind of knowing the limitations
right now there’s no statewide plan to
measure how much ground water we’re
pumping we have to be really careful
with balances we don’t want to pump out
more ground water than is recharged to a
basin and we’re learning that lesson the
hard way
you know these farmers don’t have a
choice if they don’t drill wells they
can’t farm if they can’t farm they can’t
feed California and California feeds the
world people that live in the city don’t
even know the drought exists they turned
their faucet on and they’ve got water no
big deal they don’t see the problem when
they go to the market this winter they
could see a big difference today I was
talking to the farmer and he says hey
can you sneak in another well for me I
just lost another one and I hear that
through all my customers everybody’s
losing Wells they can’t keep spending
two to four hundred thousand dollars on
a thousand-foot well to pump water with
you know somebody’s going to have to
pick the cost up sooner or later
I think it would be called worse than a
boom it’s so hectic right now you’re
always go go go go Google if I get three
four hours I – straight up take a look
you’re pushing the equipment and I’m not
the only one every drill around is doing
the same thing they’re pushing their
equipment right to the limits you know
what are you gonna do go let brakes when
it breaks you fix it and go again
there’s a lot of stuff in the world you
can live without but water is the one
thing you cannot live without so I can
see some day where it is going to be a
very precious commodity
it’s almost there now
you
would be more valuable than oil and I
can see that coming up in the future
right now business is unbelievable
the farmers they’re going crazy right
now they cannot get enough wells
we’re booked up for about 12 to 13
months the state of California has very
few regulations on groundwater and
groundwater pumping in fact we’re one of
the freest States as far as that goes
you can pump your well as hard as you
want take as much water out as you want
and it doesn’t matter what you’re doing
to the neighbors so it’s kind of the
Wild West here the dips of the wells are
always increased every year we see it
more and more right now a lot of our
wells are anywhere from 800 to about
1,200 feet the wells are gonna have to
keep going deeper because that’s the
only choice we got is to chase the water
down
it all follows down basically to
no water higher our cost higher it is
for milk and it just kind of trickles
down I don’t even know if we’re gonna
get water out of it it’s just a risk you
take basically I guess
we have about seven drill rigs most of
the rigs are run in 24 hours this
equipment is extremely high maintenance
it’s a very specialized item to run you
got to be able to feel what the rigs
doing listening to it moan and groan
just kind of knowing the limitations
right now there’s no statewide plan to
measure how much ground water we’re
pumping we have to be really careful
with balances we don’t want to pump out
more ground water than is recharged to a
basin and we’re learning that lesson the
hard way
you know these farmers don’t have a
choice if they don’t drill wells they
can’t farm if they can’t farm they can’t
feed California and California feeds the
world people that live in the city don’t
even know the drought exists they turned
their faucet on and they’ve got water no
big deal they don’t see the problem when
they go to the market this winter they
could see a big difference today I was
talking to the farmer and he says hey
can you sneak in another well for me I
just lost another one and I hear that
through all my customers everybody’s
losing Wells they can’t keep spending
two to four hundred thousand dollars on
a thousand-foot well to pump water with
you know somebody’s going to have to
pick the cost up sooner or later
I think it would be called worse than a
boom it’s so hectic right now you’re
always go go go go Google if I get three
four hours I – straight up take a look
you’re pushing the equipment and I’m not
the only one every drill around is doing
the same thing they’re pushing their
equipment right to the limits you know
what are you gonna do go let brakes when
it breaks you fix it and go again
there’s a lot of stuff in the world you
can live without but water is the one
thing you cannot live without so I can
see some day where it is going to be a
very precious commodity
it’s almost there now
you
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