He found out that it actually cost $2,000 to dig a well.

他发现挖一口井实际上要花2000美元。

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Don't wait till you are thirsty to dig a well.

毋临渴而掘井。

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When they need water, they begin to dig a well.

他们需要喝水的时候，就会开始挖井。

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Doug Boykin, the state forester for Catron County, said water is scarce here, as many find out who try to dig a well.

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Canadian accounts go back a year earlier, to 1858, when a businessman named James Miller Williams decided to dig a well for drinking water outside the town of Bear Creek, Ontario.

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John Anner: A trend in clean water and sanitation in the past was for aid organizations to come into a community, dig a well or build a latrine, provide information on how it should be used, and then leave.

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