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Columnnist: Atlanta needs a water/growth intervention

Posted by: Maven on August 20, 2009 at 7:30 am

From the Savannah (Georgia) Morning News, this editorial:

“If some Georgia officials could inhale as hard as they blow when it comes to Atlanta’s water woes, the Atlantic Ocean would be lapping at Decatur.

Talk about wind power. If some Georgia officials could inhale as hard as they blow when it comes to metro Atlanta’s water woes, the Atlantic Ocean would be lapping at Decatur.

Gov. Sonny Perdue and other Georgia officials expended a considerable amount of energy this week, suggesting there might be a national solution to Atlanta’s water shortage problem – a nationwide policy that allows municipalities to stick their straws into all federally managed reservoirs and drink to their heart’s content.

“There are some things Congress must address and some things that the state must address,” the governor told reporters Monday at the Governor’s Mansion after meeting with Georgia’s two U.S. senators and eight of the state’s 13 congressmen.

To which any reasonable lawmaker in Washington should respond, “You first.” …”

Read more of this commentary from the Savannah Morning News by clicking here.

Hat tip to Water Wired, who contrasts Atlanta with Las Vegas:

Atlanta seems to have assumed the mantle of the ’800 pound gorilla’ of Southeastern water, just as Las Vegas has that well-deserved reputation in the Southwest. The big difference is that metro Las Vegas has options and the money to pursue them, whereas metro Atlanta seems to me to be a bumbling giant.

They could use Pat Mulroy.

You can read Water Wired’s post by clicking here.

August 20, 2009 · Filed Under Development & Population, National water news

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