run dry

Organisers said the funds were needed after maintenance and staffing costs had begun to outstrip budgets, and to replenish reserves that had run dry.

The opportunities ran dry, and with them, USC’s playoff hopes largely slipped away.

Those costs, she and others said, fall on residents not only when shallow household wells run dry, but also when declining water levels worsen concentrations of contaminants, or when land subsidence damages wells.

According to state data, more than 5,000 wells have run dry in the last decade, and scientists warn that thousands more could be at risk unless stronger measures are put in place.

China's pension pot is running dry and the country is running out of time to build enough of a fund to care for the growing number of elderly.