Digging deeper wells costs more
Amid a devastating drought, the need to dig more, and deeper, wells is threatening to overwhelm the government’s relief budget. The cost of wells rises exponentially with depth. And as groundwater continues to drop, itself exacerbated by the digging of more and more wells, deeper is the only place to go. Men Neary Sopheak, deputy-general of the Cambodia Red Cross, said that the CRC is working with provincial authorities to dig between 20 and 200 wells in affected villages or communes.
