"HK" wrote in message
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Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:33:44 -0400, "Don White"
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:58:15 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:39:45 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Here around the Great Lakes water is cheap
Heh, just wait until California builds that pipeline... !
They'll have to get approval from the Canucks.
They watch that water level like a hawk.
I don't think they care to water California lawns.
Water is, after all, the source of precious bodily fluids.

--Vic
Not just Canada... the US states that border the Great Lakes are also
very interested in preventing any massive diversions to the US west.
Heck, I won't complain about cheap water.
But I've seen the issue raised about the local water flow here in
Illinois. Diversion into the SAG canal and then the Illinois river
it tightly controlled by U.S./Canadian agreements.
Wait until the price of water out west gets as high as oil, I say.
Then sell it. I'd really like to sell them the snow before it hits
the ground. --Vic


We have a water well here, couple of hundred feet + into the aquifer.
Pretty good water, too...we have it tested at least once a year. I believe
the current charge around here for well digging is $10 or $11 plus change
a foot, so a 250-foot well would run around $2800 to the wellhead. That
includes the pump at the bottom of the well.

I paid $10. per foot way back in 1976 for a drilled 165 foot deep well with
casing from the top to the bedrock (about 25 feet)
I thought it was darn expensive then.