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Hitting the Bottle
Michigan residents fight for control of the state's water |
Keith Schneider |
23 Oct 2002 |
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| Until two years ago, the 40,550 generally well-behaved Midwesterners of Mecosta County, Mich., regularly attended church, sent their children off to school on yellow buses, and never for a moment worried that their clean, freshwater supply would ever run dry. Mecosta County, after all, sits near the center of Michigan's lower peninsula, which itself sits at the center of the largest supply ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics) |
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