[blackdog]

This is really about California taking water from Oregon to meet it’s needs. This was a test case. Not that Florida doesn’t have a problem in sucking all the water out of its own aquifers and collapsing itself, but the hugh and series issue is southern California.

[bigred44]

This is not about water rights. It is about having enough flow in the river for “endangered” sturgeon (fish) to mate. They need adequate velocity in the river or they will not reproduce. This is what extreme environmentalism is about.

Being an environmental engineer, I look for solutions. I have always suggested that we put some pumps downstream of the spawning area and recirculate flow just upstream. Then the velocity will always stay above what the sturgeon need.

This court decision could cripple the Atlanta metro area, which has no other water supply than the Chattahoochee River. We’ll be back to the crisis of 2009, when the Army Corps dictated that only the original population of northern Georgia when the reservoir (Lake Lanier) was built (1964) could withdraw water from the river. That was overturned by a judge in 2012.

[RocketMan1]

5th generation Floridian here and I can vouch for the fact that the morons that are responsible for building out every square inch of swampland in my state are making sure that we will all become victims of the giant sinkhole we are ultimately creating.

NO. Every human being in the USA and elsewhere do NOT need to move to Florida!

[clintonh8r]

This case has been going on for 20 years or more. It’s about upriver users like Atlanta sucking the water out of the Chatahoochee, denying use to downriver residents and businesses, not really related to California at all.

This is a great ruling. Sorry to see Thomas dissent.

[jch10]

You are mistaken. This is about Georgia keeping the waters of the Chattahoochee for Atlanta and surrounding areas,and devastating the Apalachicola River, in NW Florida.