Harvey wrote
Also if the entire country was as dry as Arizona life in America would be very different. Without water, prosperity is harder to achieve.
I lived out west for a few years and you nailed why I stayed east.
I shared an apartment In college with a guy from Parsipanny, a Horticulture major - we talked a lot about water issues but it was not until I lived in Texas that I really understood.
Don't ski the trees, ski the spaces between the trees.