This column appears every other Tuesday in Foster’s Daily Democrat and every other Thursday in the Tuskegee News. This week Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about the value of water, and the reality of droughts..

By Amy Miller

We are not used to this water shortage business in South Berwick. We have lush gardens and swimming pools and rarely have to worry about water.

Sure, we have learned not to let the faucet run while we wander the house brushing our teeth or drying the dishes. But this month is something different.

On Aug. 11 our town water district declared a water emergency and told those of us on town water we were not allowed to water outside. Not our cars, our lawns or even our vegetable g

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