Reply #5: and another point -- one can't read Dune without thinking about how precious water is

[Lisa]

Meanwhile, Bush babbles about how he knows all about saving water (seizing yet another chance to pretend he's from a hardscrabble ranch in West Texas). But practically the first thing he does when he gets that Crawford property is to build a lavish private fishing pond (which dries out so much due to the predictably-high evaporation the first summer, that the fish die).