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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Nov 8, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Don Bowen wrote:

> > You, on the other hand, have chosen to live in a desert.  There  
> > isn't any
> > water there (have you noticed), there never has been and there  
> > never will
> > be.
>
> There is plenty of water in the desert, just not enough to the  
> millions of
> people and millions of acres of crop land.

Exactly. My parents' well in Quartzsite, Arizona--serious parched  
desert--is less than a hundred feet deep. We Midwest and Eastern  
ruralites all know people in high-rainfall parts of the country who  
have much deeper wells. My second-closest neighbor back home in  
southern Missouri had his well--over two hundred feet deep--run short  
a couple years ago. Average rainfall there is about forty-two inches  
per year.