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The Catawba River may seem like an endless supply of water flowing from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Leaders of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department (CMUD) know different.
Severe droughts in the 1990s, 2002 and 2007 proved that Carolinas communities drawing water from the...