No Backup if Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry

[DeepModem Mom]

AP: No Backup if Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry
Oct 19
By GREG BLUESTEIN

ATLANTA (AP) - With the South in the grip of an epic drought and its largest city holding less than a 90-day supply of water, officials are scrambling to deal with the worst-case scenario: What if Atlanta's faucets really do go dry?

So far, no real backup plan exists. And there are no quick fixes among suggested solutions, which include piping water in from rivers in neighboring states, building more regional reservoirs, setting up a statewide recycling system or even desalinating water from the Atlantic Ocean.

"It's amazing that things have come to this," said Ray Wiedman, owner of an Atlanta landscaper business. "Everybody knew the growth was coming. We haven't had a plan for all the people coming here?"

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue seems to be pinning his hopes on a two-pronged approach: urging water conservation and reducing water flowing out of federally controlled lakes. Perdue's office on Friday asked a Florida federal judge to force the Army Corps of Engineers to curb the amount of water draining from Georgia reservoirs into Alabama and Florida. And Georgia's environmental protection director is drafting proposals for more water restrictions.

But that may not be enough to stave off the water crisis. More than a quarter of the Southeast is covered by an "exceptional" drought - the National Weather Service's worst drought category. The Atlanta area, with a population of 5 million, is smack in the middle of the affected region, which extends like a dark cloud over most of Tennessee, Alabama and the northern half of Georgia, as well as parts of North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia....

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCHTI00.html

[itsrobert]

1. Red Staters fail to plan

Unrestrained growth and no planning drains the water.

[donsu]

2. hey! the neo cons want to destroy america - New Orleans down, next

Atlanta


neo cons plan! they plan way ahead.

why do you think they are buying property out of the US?

why do you think they are leaving the Senate and House?

the planned killing of america will go on - onward to the north american union of slaves.

[reinhardt]

3. Wonder if Atlanta's water crisis is like California's energy crisis?

That wasn't a crisis - that was an energy scam

[donsu]

4. true, a neo con scam

nt

[reinhardt]

5. The $$$ circulation was bi-partisan in nature.

The conservative fox is always reminding the henhouse that the hen's misfortune is the work of the democrat fox.