[tyen]

We get our well water from an aquifer. Plenty to go around I would imagine...I hope.

Hope in vain. Just 30 years ago everyone in the San Antonio, Texas area thought the Edwards Aquifer, one of the largest in the nation, had plenty to go around. After all, it was a monster of an aquifer, right?

Today, there are real concerns that the aquifer is not going to survive the population pressure without some strict rationing on usage. Extremities of the aquifer have already collapsed. And once they collapse, those areas cannot ever be recharged again.

All this will affect you, it just might take a little longer, is all. Run as fast as you can...you'll just die tired.

[redgolum]

Aquifers can be recharged, it just takes so long as to not be feasible to plan for.

I used to work in eastern New Mexico and west Texas. Driving around you would see a bunch of old abandoned farms and orchards. Great place to grow fruit, very little bad weather, as long as you have the water.

I never quite understood why people always think they can have a lawn in the desert.