21.   Many items at the Hermitage, including major finds made by a peasant as he dug a well near Stavropol, were bought from local people.

22.   Maybe they dug six wells, and five of them may have been dry.

23.   Martinez says he has been digging a well through solid rock for a wealthy rancher.

24.   Now the newcomers have dug wells and insulated their houses.

25.   Other Kuchis would stay deeper in the desert, digging their wells with camels hauling up the fill.

26.   Otuwa and fellow Nigerian A. Sunny Okorie, an oil company information technologist, spent several weeks last year in rural Nigeria manually digging a well.

27.   So he dug wells.

28.   The brackish James River would have become saltier, and a lowered water table would have made it difficult to dig wells.

29.   The company has refused, saying its leases allow them to dig wells and use the water for no charge.

30.   The government grew so concerned about the possibility of cholera and dysentery outbreaks that it put up a battery of toilets and dug wells for fresh water.