Most noticeable effect in VT will frequently be people's home wells running dry. If I remember right this was a big issue in parts of Vermont 2 summers ago. In late 90's my town at the time would have to resort to secondary ponds in dry times leading to boil water notices for people on town systems.
Here are a couple of articles:
https://vtdigger.org/2018/10/11/drought-continues-plague-northern-vermont-leaving-farms-wells-dry/
https://vtdigger.org/2018/09/23/drought-takes-toll-wells-northern-half-state/
map from time: