If a town needs more water and demonstrates the need, then we will give them the extra water. But if you do want more water, we want to know first what you can do to mitigate your usage.

There will definitely be enforcement. Wiser water use is going to happen in Massachusetts. We didn't want everybody to end up in an Ipswich River situation.

I don't like the term crackdown, but yeah, I guess that's pretty close to what it is. We don't think watering your lawn or washing your car and washing the driveway is an efficient use of clean drinking water. The days of using 100 gallons of water per day per person are over.

The fact that all seven of them were alive after hitting the water is a trip to begin with.

The city is, well it's not dry, but all the surface water is gone. And recovery can begin in earnest. There's no impediments to traveling.

The county needs to look at everything in a regional context. You diminish your water supply. You jam up the roads. It will turn into suburbia.