Two Tales Of Water

One of lack and one of excess.
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The region’s most severe drought in over a century has farmers here averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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Really, it is a lake of Poland Spring water, conveniently celled off in plastic, extending across 6 acres, 8 feet high. A week ago, the lake was still underground; within five days, it will all be gone, to supermarkets and convenience stores across the Northeast, replaced by another lake's worth of bottles.

Follow up: 07.09.07 New York City embarks on anti-bottled water campaign...more here.