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- Lt. Rod Blake: Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. The shortage of water in the desert to the Southwest can be and has been a disaster at one time or another. There's a case on file, however, where a life was saved by an insufficent supply of water. I'll be back in a moment to tell you about it in a case we call, "The Perilous Picnic".