Timber Company Tells California Town, Go Find Your Own Water

Sunday, 02 October 2016 08:43

Fuller Writes: "The water that gurgles from a spring on the edge of this Northern California logging town is so pristine that for more than a century it has been piped directly to the wooden homes spread across hills and gullies."

The snow-capped dormant volcano Mount Shasta, as seen from Weed, in Northern California. (Jim Wilson/NYT)

Timber Company Tells California Town, Go Find Your Own Water

By Thomas Fuller, The New York Times

02 October 16

he water that gurgles from a spring on the edge of this Northern California logging town is so pristine that for more than a century it has been piped directly to the wooden homes spread across hills and gullies.

To the residents of Weed, which sits in the foothills of Mount Shasta, a snow-capped dormant volcano, the spring water is a blessing during a time of severe and prolonged drought.

To the lumber company that owns the land where the spring is, the water is a business opportunity.

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