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Can We Refill Our Aquifers? MAR & The Groundwater Crisis
Episode 163 – The Driller Newscast

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR)

Silver Bullet or Wishful Thinking?
Brock Yordy
Brock Yordy
August 19, 2026
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The critical realities of permanent land subsidence and well-construction safety, and why local policy and community involvement are essential to preventing "water bankruptcy."
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Flomatic Sewair-Combo NXC

Flomatic Introduces Sewair-Combo NXC for Wastewater Systems

The Sewair-Combo NXC is designed to handle three air management functions within a single valve.
John Oldani
John Oldani
August 18, 2026
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The Sewair-Combo NXC is designed to handle three air management functions within a single valve.
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AI infrastructure

EPA Opens Door to More Off-Grid Power for Data Centers, but Questions Remain

What islanded power means for data center development
John Oldani
John Oldani
August 17, 2026
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Generating power outside the public grid could give data center developers more flexibility, but the environmental and ratepayer impacts are far from settled.


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The Terrascope-Nano work boot from NORTIV 8
Take care of your feet

What If I Told You We Found Safety Compliant Workboots That Don’t Feel Like Boots?

Meet NORTIV 8
Kerith Gabriel
Kerith Gabriel
August 14, 2026
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New Jersey based footwear brand, NORTIV 8, says their goal is to produce quality boots and let word of mouth across industries take it from there.
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A drilling rig hitched to a pickup truck

Stories From the Site: Some of the Wildest Things Hit While Drilling

We got the dirt on some of the weirdest finds in the field.
Kansas-based drilling professional John Shiver Truesdale.
John Truesdale
August 12, 2026
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There are many zany things drillers encounter everyday while on a jobsite. We've asked a few to tell us for your reading pleasure.


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Brock Yordy speaks with a group of Geothermal Drillers

The Road to 2050

Geothermal Exchange Drillers are carving a path to unprecedented growth
Brock Yordy
Brock Yordy
August 12, 2026
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The geothermal exchange industry is an expanding, self-sustaining industrial empire.


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Jim Beath: A Driller's Life
A Driller's Life

The Day the Steam Cleaner Didn’t Start

Jim Beath recalls a year of writing about his life for The Driller.
Jim Beath is a veteran water well driller with more than four decades of experience.
Jim Beath
August 11, 2026
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Jim Beath recalls a year of writing about his life for The Driller.


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DrillerDB map

Creating Data to Help Drillers Work Smarter, Not Harder

The Chicago-based data firm DrillerDB released the first of what it says is a series of planned databases and interactives to better serve the drilling industry
Kerith Gabriel
Kerith Gabriel
August 10, 2026
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The Chicago-based data firm DrillerDB released the first of what it says is a series of planned databases and interactives to better serve the drilling industry


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Western Kansas

EPA Turns Attention to Rural Water Challenges in Western Kansas

Rural water systems rarely make national headlines, but they play a critical role in keeping communities healthy and local economies running.
John Oldani
John Oldani
August 10, 2026
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Rural water systems rarely make national headlines, but they play a critical role in keeping communities healthy and local economies running.
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The GEFCO Mud Doctor 400
Same Challenges, New Tools

The Unknown Formation

From spring poles to smart rigs, a look at the evolution of water well drilling
John Oldani
John Oldani
August 6, 2026
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From spring poles to smart rigs, a look at the evolution of water well drilling


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