As of Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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Albany Herald
When I was younger, I did a lot of fishing and enjoyed the outdoors a lot. Like everybody else, I took a lot of our resources (natural) and otherwise for granted.
Unlike diamonds or gold, as far as usage, water is our greatest national treasure. If you are old enough to remember when bottled water was first being sold, you probably heard this comment: “I’ll never pay for a bottle of water as long as I can get it free out of the tap.”
These nay-sayers don’t realize that a soda is at least 95 percent water. Tea and Kool-Aid would be about the same. Check your utility bill and see if water isn’t included, unless you live in the country with hand-pumped well water.
JOHN BRYANT
Albany
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Comments
waltspecht 9 months, 2 weeks ago
It has often been stated that a World War will be fought over water. It sustains life, Gold, Diamonds and Silver don't. If we don't respect our water sources soon, we may be in more trouble than Gore and his Green House Gases ever thought about.
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