Water well contractors once viewed their competing contractor as "the enemy" and possibly names not suitable for this publication, but those days seem to have passed. For a variety of reasons, the highly skilled industry has progressed to where most of today's contractors see the need to be on a first-name basis with their fellow area groundwater professionals. They call it operating as friendly competitors, and it undoubtedly has helped them work through the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing supply chain issues. "I know they do it as an industry probably better than any other industry I know," says Marvin F. Glotfelty, RG, author of The Art of Water Wells and principal hydrogeologist at Clear Creek Associates LLC, a Geo-Logic Associates Co. in Scottsdale, Arizona. "Drillers loan each other tools or crews to help each other out when they're having difficulties, and they recognize as a group that high water floats everybody's boat, and so that's where I really wish hydrogeologists would do that more."
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