If you have other rural households in the area, USDA Rural Development may be able to assist you all in development of a rural water system. Talk to both of the above resources, I'm sure there are programs out there to help you. Start with the state first, they know how to get the feds involved.
You, as an individual, probably can't tap into public funds. But a group of people with similar problems/issues can form a non-profit and get things done. Talk to farmers & ranchers in the area, too. I wish I was closer, this is exactly what I did for a living for 32 years. I helped folks with problems just like you are describing solve them.
One of the groups that I worked with ended up with a rural water system with a million dollar well that was just under 4,000 feet deep. It would produce 160 gallons per minute. There were 13 household and 8 pasture taps (21 taps total), a 121,000 gallon storage tank on 109 miles of pipeline. Average monthly cost per user was $75.00 per tap per month, plus $2.00/1,000 gallons used after the first 2,000 gallons. Initial hookup fee was $1,500 (I think). That was back in 2009/2010, so I'm not sure what the rates would be now. The base monthly tap fee was set up to pay amortization of the loan needed to match the grants they got to build much of the system.
That particular system had the highest %age of grant of any project that I ever worked on. Given the current circumstances, I doubt if there is much grant money around, but there might be a lot of grant $ available in the neat future. Remember, this was at an opportune time because there was infrastructure grant money that became available in an effort to boost the economy. Remember the 2008 recession?
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