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You could move to my small village in New Mexico and join the water board. There's about 70 of us on the water system, and we could use more people to help prov
by PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
You could move to my small village in New Mexico and join the water board. There's about 70 of us on the water system, and we could use more people to help provide oversight. The well itself is about 500 yards from my front door, and the water tank and pump house are right up the hill, I go by them on most morning walks.
- thsksbd 3y agoNo thanx. Spanish cartographers were very clear about the suitability of the Southwest to sustain human life: Ari-zona. Zona Arida.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago> McClintock concluded that the name probably derived from a native place name that sounded like Aleh-zon or Ali-Shonak, which meant “small spring” or “place of the small spring.” https://azlibrary.gov/collections/dazl/arizona-almanac/meaning-arizona https://azlibrary.gov/collections/dazl/arizona-almanac/meani... Humans have documented remains close to this village going back 4000 years, and likely were here much longer than that. The creek has (so far, even in the worst drought in 1200 years) never stopped flowing.