The most apt description of the statewide water plan uproar …
December 18th, 2007 by Thomas Wheatley in News… comes from an editorial in Sunday’s Macon Telegraph. A last-minute change in the statewide water plan would allocate the resource to different parts of Georgia based on “service delivery regions” — areas that are not based on watersheds but instead on what critics call purely economic concerns and, in the words of the LaGrange Daily News, “the hydrologic equivalent of gerrymandering.” Critics are up in arms and shaking their heads with disbelief. The window for public comment on the plan is now closed; it’s now up to the Georgia Water Council to pull together the details and present it to the General Assembly next month.
The Telegraph piece echoes the voices of other outside-the-metro-region editorial boards — both literally and figuratively — and eloquently conveys the anger felt by our fellow Georgians when it comes to Atlanta’s water consumption. It also issues yet another warning to Atlanta that its growth, which has fueled its success for decades, could very well be to the detriment of both ourselves and the rest of the state.
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