On 07/14/2016 06:58 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:

There's no such thing as a dry part of the UK. And haven't you invented
irrigation?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning...rain-in-the-uk

Drier... 600 mm is still roughly twice what we can expect. Yes, we've
discovered irrigation, assuming you actually have water to irrigate
with. A river flows through the valley and there is an extensive network
of irrigation ditches. Get up on the benches a couple of hundred feet
above the valley and water isn't that easy to come by. Even on the flat
land a lot of the McMansion lots that were subdivided from old ranches
do not come with water rights.

And, no, I'm not going to get into water laws in the western US. Suffice
it to say where water is a scarce commodity without a well defined legal
structure in the good old days you'd just go kill the ******* who dammed
the creek flowing through your property.