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Published August 20, 2008 05:41 pm - It’s something people take for granted, but it’s vital to everyone. Under pressure: Getting water just right A ROBERT LEBZELTER column for Aug. 24, 2008 Star Beacon It’s something people take for granted, but it’s vital to everyone. I’m talking about water. Without water, we wouldn’t have ice that keeps bottled water cold in an ice chest. Without water, we would be brushing our teeth with Coke, sort of defeating the purpose. Olympic swimmers would have a very difficult time without water. Ever since our family converted to country living back in the 1990s grunge rock days, we’ve had water issues. First, there was, well, a well. Well water is free, it sits under dirt in your yard, but is filled with iron, giving it that much-coveted urine look. We had a water softener, which took mounds of salt, something to help everyone’s blood pressure. Being city-water junkies, we grabbed old milk bottles and filled up every time we went to parents’ homes. This is before everyone drank bottled water, buying the stuff from the supermarket you could get almost free from the tap. Then miraculously, one day city crews started tearing up our road, to put in water lines. Yes, water lines. And with water lines came, city water. Imagine, city water. Good-bye old milk bottles. And one momentous day, we had city water in our home. To mark the occasion, I penned a song we still sing once in awhile. Maybe you can sing it during your family sing-a-longs, too. It’s to the melody of Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman.” City water, flowing down our street, City water, the kind we like to drink, City water, oh, you’re as lovely as can be, You aren’t yellow, just like pee. If this were a fairy tale, I would say we lived happily ever after. But all did not stay in H2O bliss. One day, we discovered our water pressure was pretty much gone. 
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