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Conservation needed to prevent drain on water reserves

Chicago Tribune
Feb 2 2010

Is your water too cheap? Maybe if it were more expensive, you'd do more to conserve. That's one suggestion in a new report that for first time takes a comprehensive look at water use in the 11 counties of northeastern Illinois and urges aggressive conservation to make sure there is enough to go around in coming decades.

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