Our parched future
May 24, 2007 at 10:16 am by Ken Edelstein in NewsIt’s not even summer and the city of Atlanta just announced some of the toughest water restrictions I’ve ever heard of. A press release I just received says:
The Department of Watershed Management is instituting new service-area-wide restrictions on watering. City of Atlanta customers may only water outdoors on Saturdays and Sundays between midnight and 10 a.m.; even-numbered addresses on Saturday and odd-numbered addresses on Sunday. No outdoor watering is allowed Monday through Friday until further notice. This service area includes the City of Atlanta, Sandy Springs and unincorporated South Fulton County.
With population growth projected to send the metro area toward 10 million people (see John Sugg’s column in this week’s Loaf) and global warming expected to turn much of the state into savanna, does anyone doubt that the region’s long-awaited water crisis is here already? And what punishment should the people of Georgia extract from politicians who’ve refused to pass tough water-use restrictions at the behest of their development-industry sponsors?
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May 24th, 2007 at 10:53 am
But Savannah is gorgeous!
No, wait. That’s not what you meant.