We're running out of water

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Jul 9, 2007 10:57 AM EDT

Article Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

When I took my oldest daughter to college for the first time, I was struck by the number of students I saw lugging bottled water into their dorm rooms, case after case. Wasn't tap water good enough for these kids, I wondered? Why pay $2 a bottle for something that I always thought of as free?

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