better take note, because once your streams and tributaries to the river start drying up, the river is n't far behind, Reames said. See photos of a Atlanta's shrinking Lake Lanier reservoir Volunteers take turns three days a week driving a tanker truck or Orme's diesel-belching 1961 fire truck to a hydrant near Bridgeport, Alabama, 2 1/2 miles down the road. Making several round trips, they haul about 25,000 gallons of water back to Orme each day. Bridgeport, which gets its water from the Tennessee River, does n't charge its neighbor. Stevenson and New Hope, Alabama, also help out, occasionally bringing trucks full of water to the hydrant, where it's transferred to the Orme trucks. See where Orme has to go for water But things are looking up in Orme. A pipeline from Bridgeport is nearly complete, built with the help of a $378,000 grant from the federal government. With this new water coming in, then we 'll have it made, Cash said. Now we wo n't have to worry about it no more. In addition, an Austin, Texas, company called H2O Guard is planning to donate water-saving sink aerators, shower heads and toilet valves to everyone in Orme on November 17, company spokesman Robert Easter said. We think we 're going to get another 90 gallonssavings per day per household, Easter said. That 'll make that little water tower in that town go from three hours to four hours without any