[PEN-L:3443] Re: The WREN water system etc.

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The manner in which collective ownership can often provide cheap
>and simple solutions to problems is illustrated by the water
>supply systems in the small town in which I live.
>The town was settled in stages. At first there were not enough
>people to set up a municipal water supply.  Settlers as they came
>in started co-operatively owned but quite informally structured
>water systems. Most did not have enough money for individual
>wells so each person chipped in so much money and a well would be
>dug with lines running to each
>members property...These systems still survive many decades after
>they were begun.

Are you on the Ogallalla aquifer?