Groundwater has come to the rescue, and for a while it seemed a miraculous solution: drill a borehole, pump the stuff up from below and in due course it will be replaced.
The only downside to this development is that every new technology is very expensive when it first comes out, so the rest of us may not have access to this literally life-saving technology for a while.
So the story goes: at the first two false alarms the boy gave, people in the village got fooled, and consequently no one came when the real wolf was approaching him however hard he cried for help.