POLAND, Maine — Since mid-August, Maine has been in a drought. Months later, the entire state is still in some form of a drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor .

Recently, the progressive nonprofit media organization More Perfect Union reported it found evidence that Poland Spring, the Maine-based bottling company, is pumping more water from springs than ever before, despite the drought and claiming it had cut back.

“There was real frustration that I heard from people about what Poland Spring is doing, and especially during a drought," Paul Blest, a producer for More Perfect Union, told NEWS CENTER Maine.

Blest said he looked at several years of reports and found Poland Spring had been increasing the amount of water it was pumping in Fryeburg and Denmark.

NEWS CENTER Maine

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