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Dry weather causing headaches for Nova Scotians on dug wells
Longtime West Hants resident Dawn Dunphy is hoping for a good, hard rain.Lately she’s been turning on her tap and nothing’s coming out. That’s because her dug well has run dry again.”Right now we’re conserving,” Dunphy said from her home in Ardois, N.S. “It sucks, but it’s, like, doing one load of wash a week, not flushing the toilet as often, not showering as long.”Dunphy said usually these measures are top of mind in the summer, but this is the driest fall she’s seen in 26 years. She said she