Students are encouraged to pursue careers in water.
Abbott is one of thousands of young people being brought up in the well drilling and pump installation business. The National Ground Water Association says a vast majority of the more than 9,500 pump companies in North America are family-run operations. Now at a crossroads in their lives, these young men and women must decide whether to enter the family business or break the chain that often began generations ago - some as far back as the early 1900s. Rather than risk losing them to other careers, some pump manufacturers have begun finding ways to encourage young people to stay in the business - just like their parents and grandparents before them.