The well cost more than the landSourced
Desert land came cheap.
Finding water did not.
Frank Lloyd Wright bought Arizona desert land for his winter studio in 1937. It was cheap partly because groundwater was uncertain. He spent $10,000 drilling a well, more than he paid for the land, and the well took three years to complete.
The land's low price
returned as a water bill.
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