ISLE LA MOTTE, Vt. (WCAX) Cathy Tudhope’s summer has been a challenge.
"This is my eleventh week without water," Tudhope said.
Her well, which sits in a field next to her Isle La Motte house, is 15-feet deep and at least 90 years old.
It’s so shallow, the state doesn’t even recognize it as a well.
And Tudhope is not alone.
"People have always relied on them, but in a given dry year, which we have every five to seven years, sometimes they just stop producing," said Claude Chevalier of Chevalier Drilling.
Chevalier says his business has seen a 50 percent increase in customers hoping to have their shallow wells drilled deeper.
"When somebody is out of water, they need help immediately."
"You do what you have to do to get along," Tudhope said.
"I can’t wait to take a shower in my house," Tudhope said.