Here is a
link to an article about water being diverted to "drought plagued" Georgia from Florida through Alabama.
I knew Arizona and California and other western states were locked into a multi-decade battle over the Colorado, but I always thought georgia has enough water!
Quote:
John Kennedy | Tallahassee Bureau Chief
November 10, 2007
TALLAHASSEE - Florida officials Friday backed away from a temporary truce hammered out by the Bush administration to end a three-state water war, fearing the deal would kill Apalachicola Bay's oyster industry.
In a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Florida's environmental chief said the plan to reduce water flowing from drought-plagued Georgia into Alabama and Florida could "displace the entire economy of the Bay region."
The move "has a high potential to cause significant harm to the people of Florida and our natural resources," wrote Michael Sole, Florida's secretary of environmental protection.
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