Excuse me, EP, but as usual you are so wrong it's funny.

As an example, here is my most recent contribution to the literature, currently under consideration for the upcoming 6th Mars confernce.

This demonstrates the clear value of Earth analogues for understanding how Mars might work, rather than how we would like it to work. if this is inadequate, try a search engine enquiry on [+"dry valleys" +Mars].

Some readers may be surprised to see me actually talking about literal water on Mars, but what I am doing here is trying to make people THINK about how H2O would behave on Mars.

If we are to look for water on a dry planet. let's at least look in the right places, and for the right things...