Rural, burbs, city, don’t matter here, you can drive a well most anywhere. 25-30 feet down and get water.
In a SHTF situation no regulation would stop anyone. You could dig a well with a shovel if you had to.
The entire state is crisscrossed with rivers, streams, lakes and ponds.
As I said in the previous post, water will be a significant problem. Perhaps not for YOU personally, but for most anyone else.
Water is 300+ft here.
You can’t just dig one of those 300+ft wells and not have modern equipment. Or piping of some sort. And you’re not going to go through one of the rock layers here without modern equipment anyways.
Many suburbs and HOA’s forbid rainwater cisterns. And getting those after some sort of event won’t be easy.
And the rivers, streams, lakes and ponds will be that ‘iffy’ water unless you boil it.
And then there’s the disposal of waste issue for people on a public sewage system...most of those have pumps at some point.
But the most important part is the people. How many suburbanites in the blue suburbs would say ‘Hey, if we dig a hole 30ft deep we’ll hit potable water! Let’s start!’. Especially the EBT cardholders. Once they burn down the cities, short time to recovery becomes long time to recovery.
Yes. A very large number of people from engineers to laborers are now designing a very low cost, DIY rotary water well drilling rig that will mount on a low cost, DIY tractor.
Those and many other machines are in development and already have a license requiring the designs to be free for anyone to build or manufacture and sell from now on (oh...engineers, laborers, technicians and legal support to give the effort some sticking power, too). The change is coming and the enhanced security of distribution and localization of production with it (i.e., not so centralized).
I'm in a city, my home on a hillside with a slope that goes down in my back yard. The other street behind my home is at lower elevation. An old timer in the neighborhood told me water used to flow at the bottom as a creek from upper hills, the city laid drainage pipe and covered it over. If the tap water stops flowing, I'm drilling into that drainage pipe. I suspect a lot of creeks run underground beneath many neighborhoods in many hilly cities and towns.