We need to let solutions flow to save water.

• Author: Flobeck, Jack
• Position: Letter to the editor

"Tapped out," by Allen Best (October) is a wonderful, beautifully written commentary, long on history and definition of the Western water challenges, but painfully short on answers.

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Water banking is essential for survival, and alternative crops may replace some of the hay. But major structural changes in "prior appropriation" are absolutely necessary to permit, encourage and launch new saving techniques, long overlooked, including:

No longer flooding to avoid losing water, domestic reuse devices, rain harvesting, condensation harvesting, desalination of polluted mine...