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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (54659)	9/8/2009 7:19:25 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217712

>>I'm more convinced that water is the true US Achilles's heel.. not energy at all.<< Water has always been the main limiting factor in the western USA. Much of the land in these states was retained by the federal government because it wasn't suitable for the kind of dense settlement in the eastern states. These stats don't include national parks/monuments/refuges and military reservations... Western States Data: Public Land Acreage (FS & BLM), Percentage of Land Base, and Population wildlandfire.com P.S. Severe drought in Africa... Lush Land Dries Up, Withering Kenya’s Hopes nytimes.com