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The time I rode RAGBRAI was during a year with severe flooding (which destroyed most of the corn crop - and I had so been looking forward to corn on the cob!) But I'd guess that water isn't a problem in Iowa even in normal years. Almost every town we came into had water fillup stations where they had PVC pipes with holes at regular intervals and water shooting out of the holes like rows of mini-fountains. You'd put your water bottle under one of the fountains and fill up. They ran them all day, as far as I could tell. I think two water bottles would be plenty, even on the hottest days. Just keep filling them up.