Baxter Black: Cities hogging water
Amarillo.com
The drought in the south made the news. Not because North Carolina Cattlemen’s pasture is drying up or Kentucky soybean crop is compromised, but because Atlanta is running out of tap water.
Atlanta is one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the U.S. Its biggest city water reservoir is Lake Lanier. The Governor of Georgia is pleading, threatening and demanding the federal government (Army Corps of Engineers) to hold back water presently being released to protect an endangered mollusk downstream.
Sound familiar? Does the name “short-nosed sucker” come to mind? In the spring of 2001, the federal government ruled that almost all stored Klamath Lake irrigation water would be diverted to protect the endangered short-nosed sucker downriver.
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