9.12.2009

water water


. . .everywhere. There are maybe 50 springs in a 20-mile radius around the Goose. The one above is at Boze Mill; it produces 12 million gallons a day. Clear, beautiful. Hummingbrds ply the air over the sluiceway. Not far from there we saw a tiny fountain that appeared to spring from a boulder no bigger than a bucket.
Water is the oil of the future. Desertification and ensuing water wars have already begun in Spain and Kenya and California. They will spread. Not to internalize the apocalyptic views of so many in this area, but it's as well to have a steady source of your own.

2 comments:

cba said...

The Ozarka water you buy is bottled in Texas... did you notice?

Could we bottle water in Missouri and give it cachet by calling it.. let's say..

Block Island Bottled Brilliance?

or maybe WeirFarmia?

Or maybe we could just truck it over to Georgia. We're always having a nice drought.

It's all in the packaging.

Dianne said...

EVERYTHING all boils down to MARKETING....I need to learn how to market my beautiful horses!