Historic water rights ruling cripples Georgia
- From: Vol 9, Issue 2 (February 2008)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
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A US federal court has overturned a 2003 water resourcing agreement. It is a major blow for Atlanta’s water supply plans, as Kathy Shandling finds out.
The state of Georgia was one of the worst affected by last summer’s US drought, and conditions got so bad at one point that the governor not only banned all outdoor watering, but staged a prayer ceremony to plead to the gods for water. Now an historic federal ruling has added insult to injury, crippling long-term water supply plans ...
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