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I thought Utah was a pretty arid place, where does the water comes from ?

Underground aquifers, reservoirs from streams, rivers, etc. Northern Utah gets a fair amount of snow as well. There are around 2.9 million people living in Utah[1]. There is also a fair amount of agriculture in the state, especially up north, which uses most of the water in the state[2]. States like Arizona and New Mexico are much more arid.

[1] - http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49000.html [2] - http://www.water.utah.gov/brochures/wiu_broc.htm

Very interesting links thank you.

I was very surprised about the "racial" statistics in the first link.

In my country (France) it's unlawful to make this kind of statistics.

Wait, its illegal to take take racial demographic statistics in France? I find that really surprising. I went and tried to look up French census information, but alas, I could only find it in French. I can however find estimates of racial demographics in France on wikipedia and such.

Yes it's illegal.

What you probably found was people's country of origin but not their race (or it was not a French survey).

Even hinting about it will get you labeled as a racist.

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