He's in Canada. Brad De Long wrote: > >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?
