Water is something that we all take for granted until we turn on the tap and it doesn’t freely flow into our waiting glass. We can’t live without it and increasingly its becoming harder and harder to come by.

We’re really quite spoiled here in the Peterborough area. We’re lucky to live in a place that’s rich in water resources. We have our beautiful Kawarthas, and our clear, fast flowing Otonabee River. A shortage of water isn’t something we think about often.

Regular readers of this column know that through my university days I worked at large retailers to pay the bills. One thing that always astonished me was when bottled water would go on sale. People would literally fill entire shopping carts with cases of water, in total leaving the store with over 100 individual bottles at a time.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- March 17, 2010