I photographed a group of Maya Achi who in 1982 had resisted the drowning of their ancestral homelands by a large dam project. As a result, government soldiers kidnapped, raped, and massacred 444 of them in the village of Rio Negro alone. Altogether, the government committed a series of extrajudicial killings connected to the dam that claimed up to 5,000 lives between 1980 and 1982 that later became known as the Rio Negro massacres. Our assignment was to record what had become of the survivors twenty-five years later. The dry well is in a resettlement village for the victims of the massacres at Rio Negro. The land for the village was poor for farming and the people here were having a hard time surviving. Inadequate farm and household land provided by the government has contributed significantly to the severe poverty and malnutrition of the region. In addition, extreme drought from climate change was forcing many Central American farmers to emigrate.