Yes, usually there was water in the canyons below. Sometimes it was seasonal water. They also had rain and snow melt. They sometimes channeled and or collected water from the cliffs or used check dams. Rock pools, and water seepage would get them through droughts. The elevation of most sites in quite high so snow melt would be retained in the soil with careful management.
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First you learn to make adobe bricks, then you get a workforce large enough for the dwellings you want to build, then you excavate the cave or depression until it is large enough. Cover the face with brick, add walls if needed for internal separation or support, drill smoke holes through the top of the cliff (if needed), put in water citrons, and waste disposal wells.
Collect water, grind corn, hunt, protect dwellings.
The Anasazi built amazing cliff dwellings made of stone with mud mortar and plaster and wooden beams. They also began cultivating maize, beans and sqaush which became increasingly important in their growing culture.
473.69 ft. exactly i measured it with my ruler
the Iroquois tribe dwellings look like the mesa verde