[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Those Georgians are a'fixin' ta steal Tennessean water...

It's a'feudin' time

:)

[MNJohnnie]

Hmm feuding about water they didn’t even know existed before GA needed it?

[bamahead]

Well...ya’lls state line is a full cotton-pickin mile too far south.
That’s our water dagnabbit!

[Abathar]

"TVA spokesman Gil Francis said such a plan almost certainly would involve environmental impact studies, federal reviews known for lengthy delays."

Understatement of the year...

[PAR35]

Tennessee lawmakers passed the Interbasin Water Transfer Act requiring the state to issue permits to any entity moving water out of the Tennessee River watershed

I hate to have to be the one to tell the Tennessee legislature, but they have no authority over the parts of the watershed lying in other states. And the Tennessee River drains parts of 7 or 8 states.

[Abathar]

Tennessee should have been paying rent for storing all that water under Georgia land for so long. :)

Possession is 9/10 the law so if they want to poke a hole into a cave you so conveniently filled with water without their permission then I think they should go for it.

[muawiyah]

Warning to folks living in the West, traditional Arabian/Spanish water-rights systems do not apply in the East.

If they did New Orleans or Pass Christian would have 100% of the water rights involved all the way back to the source.

Eastern law is more complicated, follows a totally different convoluted logic, and all that's going to happen here is that Georgia is going to drill some wells.

[shag377]

Notice, how the article focuses on Atlanta.

Nevermind the rest of the state is in severe drought conditions, or the agriculture of the Southern part of the state depends heavily on water...

Oh yeah, we must save Atlanta! I am a Georgian, proud Georgian, but I don’t claim Atlanta.

[shuckmaster]

Hand me down my shootin’ iron. There’s a gonna be trouble.

[trane250]

The water supply situation in metro Atlanta is no joking matter. The water authorities serving the region need to find reliable sources of supply other than the 2 current reservoirs. Below is a map of the New York City water system. The system can supply 1.4 billion gallons a day of water so clean that 90% does not need to be filtered. In a drought emergency, they can pump water from the Hudson River north of the salt water line at Chelsea, New York.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Why can’t Georgia just buy the water Atlanta needs from other states at a price set by a free market?

[ovrtaxt]

I just gotta post it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_wc8CjmtE

[JasonC]

"the habitat of an endangered species of bat"

Would someone please tell every green luddite to take a flying leap?

It gets so freaking old! Grow the heck up, already!

[SlapHappyPappy]

I’d say once the water leaves your state, you’re pretty much out of luck.

[tcrlaf]

GEE....

I guess CONTROLLING Atlanta Metro’s growth to available resources would be FAR too much to ask, eh?