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People should still take conservation measures for now, but at least it's a slight reprieve.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-11-01-drought_N.htm?csp=34
In the latest attempt to grapple with one of the harshest droughts on record and a decades-old battle over water rights, the Bush administration brokered a deal Thursday among three states that should keep Atlanta's water supply flowing.
Under the deal, the Army Corps of Engineers would send less water to Alabama and Florida from Georgia reservoirs that the Corps has jurisdiction over. The move would curtail water to power plants, farms, commercial fisheries and smaller municipalities in the two states.
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In before anti-Gore wank.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-11-01-drought_N.htm?csp=34
In the latest attempt to grapple with one of the harshest droughts on record and a decades-old battle over water rights, the Bush administration brokered a deal Thursday among three states that should keep Atlanta's water supply flowing.
Under the deal, the Army Corps of Engineers would send less water to Alabama and Florida from Georgia reservoirs that the Corps has jurisdiction over. The move would curtail water to power plants, farms, commercial fisheries and smaller municipalities in the two states.
( Read more... )
In before anti-Gore wank.