And Nary a Drop for You

This is going to sound too good to be true, but there is still a place in the Lower 48 where cell phones don't work and no one is daffy enough to pay twice the price of gasoline for designer water. They don't have to. Springwater bubbles up everywhere in the villages of New Haven and Newport, an hour north of Madison, Wis.

"Go ahead and take a drink," Dave Krause, 69, says at the fountain that's been bubbling out back of New Haven Town Hall since he was a kid. "You can drink it straight out of the spring."

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