The Waters of Comfort

Tracing development in the Palm Springs region of the Coachella Valley, the author tells the true adventure stories of these hardy men and women who came to this desert determined to make a home where conditions forbade it; then, a propitious event that changed the future, the discovery of a great wealth beneath the sand: ancient aquifers of water. And it was just not any water, but a high grade of mineral water, both for drinking and for soaking, as the particular geologic nature of the area--earthquake fault zones-have created a hot, soothing, mineral water that rival any spa center in the work, and was the reason the City of Desert Hot Springs was founded. Written by John Hunt.