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...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...
Cambridge has used the Quabbin Reservoir for back-up water supply since...
DeVillars said Quabbin, the largest reservoir in the Northeast, is usually at 81 percent capacity and is down this year to 68 percent. It is at its lowest level since March 1967, when it fell to 45 percent. The last water emergency was declared when the reservoir's level was 65 percent in 1965, the beginning of a four-year drought, according to MDC records...
...Commissioner William Geary warned that the low level in the reservoir could hurt the quality of drinking water...
...blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts," says Fuller. Like a peripatetic preacher, he makes his folksy "theology of the hammer" spiels to audiences all over the world, trying to tap into what he contends is "an incredible reservoir of goodwill out there...