Nor any drop to drink

摘要

“See that trailer?" H.R. Blake, a young patrolman with the Nitro police department, points to a standard 53-foot shipping container on the back of a tractor-trailer. Cases of water spill out of the container. Mr Blake stands on the pavement next to the Nitro police department's car park, surrounded by more cases of bottled water stacked on wooden pallets. "We've gone through eight of those since Thursday."