So Georgia is running out of water due to a drought. Their governor is complaining that the Endangered Species act is protecting the species that depend on the water in the rivers at the expense of the people of Atlanta.
Hmm…
How about you stop trying to cram tons of people into areas that are not meant to support them? How about you take a more realistic view of your state and understand your natural resource limitations and live within your means?
I don’t mean to pick on Georgia alone, it’s alot of communities in the South and South-Western US. There’s not enough water there, never really has been. And yet more and more people move there taxing the resources. There will be a collapse one day.
I’m sorry Gov. Purdue…I don’t feel bad for you.
One of the problems facing Georgia and the Atlanta area is all the open space. every year the city expands outward in all directions. I spent 5 years in Georgia, and it was shocking to me that MetroAtlanta when I arrived there was considered to be about 15 miles around the city. Before I left to come back here, there were talks that LaGrange, a town bordering Alabama, was under consideration to join MetroAtlanta. LaGrange is a good 60 miles Southwest of Downtown Atlanta.
During all 5 years living in the state, in various parts, every summer there was a watering ban. Every year, the ban was more severe. To top that off, Atlanta was at the time of my departure, suffering from a highly outdated and malfunctioning infrastructure (more so on water and sewer systems than roads). I was trying to find an article for reference, but I know the city was given a deadline by the federal government to get it fixed.
No one gets elected on the premise to limit the growth of a city. Much of California faces the same growth / water / infrastructure problem.
Maybe if the rest of the country wasn’t so dull to live in, California wouldn’t have these problems.
Well when a gallon of water costs more than a barrel of oil there in California, I’ll be running through my sprinklers up here by the Great Lakes.
I think of you often when I bundle up in my light jacket in December.
Darn you!
Actually I like Winter and snow so I do ok.