Fascinating--and quite persuasive. How about New Mexico's acequia
system?
On Apr 10, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Today's New Mexican has and interesting article on rainfall and
democratic processes. Here's a copy from a different newspaper, the
New Mexican site did not include it, alas.
http://goo.gl/lIzX5
This is a bit like the direction of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared
Diamond .. looking for correlation, explanation outside of the
political domain. Interesting anyway.
-- Owen
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