Southeast drought update
Since I seem to have become an accidental expert on the drought in the Southeast (see here and here and here), John pointed me toward this story in the NY Times today:
Georgia lost a major court fight in the Southern battle over water rights on Tuesday when a federal appellate-court panel said the state could not withdraw as much water as it had planned from an Atlanta-area reservoir.
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Gov. Bob Riley of Alabama hailed the decision as “the most consequential legal ruling in the 18-year history of the water war, and one of the most important in the history of the State of Alabama.”
He said the ruling “invalidates the massive water grab that Georgia tried to pull off.”
Alabama and Florida, which depend on water from Lake Lanier for power generation, industry, recreation and commercial fishing, argued Georgia had no legal right to the reservoir, which was originally built for hydropower.
In Big Ten Eleven country, we settle our differences on the football field. Obviously those nuts in the SEC take it to another level.
At least they're not settling them at the Fight Club level yet. Or perhaps they're just not talking about Fight Club....
Posted by: Ironman | February 06, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Alabama and Florida, which depend on water from Lake Lanier for power generation, industry, recreation and commercial fishing, argued Georgia had no legal right to the reservoir, which was originally built for hydropower.
So the most efficient use of a limited resource is to put it in the hands of a court to look at historical intent of that resource...
For some reason I have my doubts.
Posted by: joshua corning | February 06, 2008 at 05:27 PM