Pure serendipity, but the discussion of Sherman's march to the sea primed me to notice the following article http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/atlanta-finishing-what-general-sherman-started Another stimulus was a headline from one of the innumerable sites that fill my mailbox with offers of investment advice, to the effect that the next big thing in scarce resource investing after oil is water. John -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 http://www.wordworks.jp/