Word: bhatti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contamination hazard forces Cambridge to take water from the Quabbin reservoir, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will be "hard-pressed" to supply water to all its customers, said M. Ilyas Bhatti, MDC's director of watershed management. Extremely low levels of rainfall this winter have already prompted state officials to declare a "water emergency" for Boston and 43 other communities served by the Quabbin...
...Quabbin system continues to be stressed further because of the lack of precipitation, the MDC would find it very difficult to provide water to the partially supplied communities to bail them out in case of an emergency," said Bhatti. Most of greater Boston draws on the Quabbin and Wachusett, MDC's reservoirs...
...Bhatti said the MDC supports Cohen's original bill, adding that Barrett's amendment would not be an "appropriate" solution to the problem because it would make the MDC responsible for monitoring Cambridge water...
...definitely supporting that bill, and we are endorsing it tomorrow," said Bhatti...