It’s simple, easy and free.
Other than the cost to dig the well and the price he pays to run the pump, the water itself is like the air above it — free. He can use as much of it as he wants.
But he doesn’t like to talk about that.
“I just don't like the message there because it's going to make somebody say, ‘Well, maybe we should make them pay for the water,’” Richard said. “I mean, I don't want to make a bigger deal out of it than what it is, you know? Because you're almost inviting somebody to stake claim to this water.”