This guy sold his share in Church's Chicken and retired to 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in Texas. He paid to have seven wells drilled 500 feet, but none of them produced any water. He planted grass all over, the soil absorbed water again, and the aquifers filled. Now there are a number of springs and everything is nice and green:
I was surprised when he said they cut down cedars in favor of grasses, but the someone commented the cedars were not native, but the grasses were. The cedars took too much water.