Word: low
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...control, under which many apartment buildings in Cambridge are regulated. As has happened in many other cities, many rent-controlled apartments in the Cambridge area have gone, not to those who needed them the most, but to those who could most easily afford them. Such abuses have forced many low-income families, those that would otherwise benefit from rent control, out on the streets...
...MWRA, along with the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), announced the emergency in light of the season's unusually low precipitation and the low water level at the Quabbin Reservoir, which provides water for 2.5 million people in the area...
...Commissioner William Geary warned that the low level in the reservoir could hurt the quality of drinking water...
...course, a modification of the current abortion laws would be far less drastic than complete reversal of the Roe decision, but even minor changes in the law could mean serious setbacks in the quality of health care for women--particularly women from low-income backgrounds...
Since Cambridge would be forced to draw on other water supplies in the event of a shortage, Barrett said his amendment was also important to the greater Boston area. He added that extremely low levels of precipitation this winter made a shortage likely...