Water wars continue between Alabama, Georgia, Florida

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The states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia have been fighting over water for decades. Water use around the city of Atlanta is causing problems downstream in Alabama and Florida. The U.S. Supreme court sided with Georgia in a lawsuit with Florida earlier this year. But that doesn’t mean the water war is over. Alabama and Florida both accuse Georgia of using too much water. “As human activity in the basin has grown it has put economic and ecologic stresses on the system," said Gordon Rogers, the Flint Riverkeeper in Georgia . He is in a position to know, as has served with the ACF Stakeholders in various capacities. There’s enough water for everyone most years. Rogers sa id the problems arise when there’s a drought. “There are real and perceived shortages of water in the basin. Some of them are real, some of them are perceived and so the arguments center on what is real and what is not," he said. "None of it matters really unless we are in a drought but the things that we do when we’re