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55. I don't drink bottled water

I did when I lived in Mass, but only because the municipal water where I lived was very poor quality. The reports consistently showed that it violated standards.

Now I have my own well, as do most Mainers. Wells and, in the western part of the state, cisterns. There are states that actually make cisterns illegal. Fortunately we are not one of them.

We have one of the best aquifers in the world, and depend on it for our agriculture and to live.

When I moved up here 10 years ago, in part it was because I knew there would be water. At the master gardener program, the director of the local extension office told us point blank that "water will be the oil of the 1st century." There will be wars over water.