[Ben Ficklin]

The area is the dry zone, as opposed to the wet zone.

The area bounded by the 98th meridian to the east and the Cascades/Sierra Nevada in the west.

To list the rainfall in areas in the wet zone to the east of the 98th meridian, such as in reply #8, is not relevant.

In the wet zone they use Riparian water rights but in the dry zone they us prior appropriation water rights.

[alexander_busek]

To list the rainfall in areas in the wet zone to the east of the 98th meridian, such as in reply #8, is not relevant.

If the map is being used to incite fear, to bolster the cause of "global warming," and to make it look like the country is suffering a shortage of potable water, by covering vast swathes in shades of yellow, orange, and red - then you are right: It is not relevant to show that much of the nation still has plentiful freshwater resources.

Regards,