Byline: JAY GALLAGHER Gannett News Service
ALBANY -- The almost year-long drought in New York has been a disaster for many farmers, threatening freshwater supplies for communities that depend on the Hudson River and leading to widespread restrictions on water usage.
Yet paradoxically in the view of some experts it also has highlighted what may turn out to be a key economic strength for the state in the next century: its abundance of fresh, clean water.
The challenge, they say, will be to make enough of it available to be a significant economic asset.
The advantage is especially stark when compared to the parts of the country that have mushroomed over the last 30 years as New York has become economically stagnant: the South and Southwest.
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