WATER WARS STEM THE TIDE OF PROGRESS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: Fred LeBrun

The great water showdown between the town of Bethlehem and the city of Albany is the sort of confrontation we might expect out west between cattle barons arguing over a common water hole.

But not here. Not in the Capital Region, where we are near to drowning in good water of international reputation from Saratoga, for example. More isbottled in Scotia from the glacial Great Flats aquifer. Troy has the overbuilt Tomhannock Reservoir, and cash-strapped Schenectady has so much good water the city is giving serious consideration to bottling and selling it to strangers passing through.

Since 1980, Democratic Albany has been …