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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Lynn, there is more than a touch or irony in my life :-) .  But, when I came 
to Phoenx, it was a good place.  It was before the  seas of large expenive 
red-tiled-roofed, poorly built tract houses. 

 There was plenty of water, for the people when I moved here.  Phoenix is a 
valley which has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years.  Indians 
built canals to bring water from the snows up north and from the colorado 
long before Our ancestors converted to Christianity.

  The problem is, there are too many of us here now.  And maybe one of the 
'reasons' I pay so much attention to water is because of where I live. 
....bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Water Crisis Coming Soon
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:46 AM
> >For rural or urban homesteading, in general clean water
> >is important not 
> >just for survival but for the >indepependence and
> self-sufficiency that 
> >most of us seek.
> 
>  Bob; I find it ironic that you talk so much about clean,
> living water, yet 
> you live in a desert. There are places in this country
> where water is 
> abundant. I know that *I* don't discuss water very much
> because it's not an 
> issue for me. It comes from my well, runs in my stream,
> falls regularly from 
> the sky, and even bubbles up from the ground in half a
> dozen places on my 
> property. It would be very difficult to regulate all of
> that. although I 
> would't put it past the government to try.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga County, PA 
> 
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