Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. That was one of the health and welfare issues that many flood-ravaged Mantecans had to contend with for days - even weeks and months for others - following the devastating hundred-year floods that greeted the New Year in 1997. The flood waters that seemed to melt the boil-weakened levees like butter along the San Joaquin and Stanislaus rivers south and southwest of Manteca appeared as though they were here to stay.