This company has changed our lives forever.
In October 2022 we purchased a home and had no knowledge of a well on the property because the listing said the home was on city water. On the same day, we moved in, the water cut off while I was in the shower. That was how we found out about the well.
Some background, my husband and I are hardworking individuals who used to be very very very low income. When I gave birth to our first child, we had nowhere to live, and my husband was laid off from work the week before. We struggled hard for the first ten years of our marriage as we tried to make a life for our children, we lived on food stamps, etc. We wanted more for our kids so we went to college, I went to law school, I decided not to sit for the bar, and we, subsequently, found career paths we enjoy that allow us to spend time with our kids on a consistent daily basis. However, I had also racked up $200K in student loan debt. Yes, we also started earning more money; however, we are right in that sweet spot where we could never outright pay for a new well – yet we make enough to not require any outside aid.
You can probably imagine our distress when we learned that we were unable to get any assistance with having a new well drilled because of our income. With the new home loan and my student loan debt, no bank would touch our multiple requests for a personal loan.
We felt like we had entered a nightmare. We were only getting about 40-gallons a day from the old well. In order to make sure we were all clean and the laundry was done, we had to limit the kids to 1.5-minute showers, many times I would bathe in the water after the kids when we ran a bath, we did the laundry at a laundry mat & also in the bath water on some occasions – the list of creative things we did to survive is endless.
It broke my heart just a little more with each day that I was forced to time my kids in the shower. I felt like I was a complete failure as a parent. At one point, I had to save rainwater to wash things like comforters and towels, dishes, etc., because we had no water.
When I contacted WWT, they determined we were over the income limit; and yet Sherry reassured me they do have some companies that are willing to work with families that have kids even if they don’t qualify due to their income.
You might be able to imagine, I considered WWT a long shot. I felt like we were going to have to live like this forever…
After a year or so, we considered selling, which would have been a huge loss. Because of the interest rates our family, which has three kids, would not be able to buy a new house – we would have had to move into an apartment. It was a hopeless situation.
Then, a miracle happened. Sherry called me and said they found someone who was willing to bless our family with a new well. I cried, and when I say I cried, I SOBBED like a big crybaby, tears of joy and relief and gratitude. I was in disbelief that this was actually happening. I had been in this nightmare for so long and thought it would never end. Then these amazing people were true to their word and found someone to support us in our dire time of need.
We now have water, and a well, and we bathe – we bathe for as long as we want. We can water the garden, which was deprived for so long the plants are overgrowing everything else! We can run the dishwasher, and do laundry, and shower AT THE SAME TIME! My children no longer feel like we don’t want them to be clean (they have no shower time limit – in fact, they can shower as many times daily as their hearts desire).
The despair is gone.
I cannot express my family’s gratitude enough. We have truly been given a gift. It saddens me to know that there are other families who struggle with this same issue daily – water is a basic human right, and yet, we had none. I encourage anyone who is struggling to live because of water issues to contact WWT. This company is truly a blessing to all the lives they touch.
Thank you WWT.
