Why dont they go to where the galciers are melting and catch some! That's pure clean water.

 

Our government is the problem. The Chattahoochee River is at Flood levels below the Lake Lanier dam. I've seen it and it's amazing how deep it is. I've never seen the river that full.

See the problem is the Dam is controlled by the Federal Army Corps of Engineers. And they are under orders from the EPA to release water in order to save the Muscles andSturgeon in Southern Alabama & Florida. I guess they are trying to help out the Sturgeon and Muscle farmers/fishermen while they screw over Atlanta and lots of Georgia.

Our Governer is a coward and does nothing but "Pray" for rain. He needs to take the Georgia National Guard out to the Dam and take control becuase this is getting Ridiculous.

 

i heard there was a little rain that fell yesterday. it wasn't 20 feet worth, but it's a start...

 

Sent an e-mail to Governor Perdue, at his website.Asking him why, the largest country in the world. One of the most powerful countries in the world, one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world has yet to build a desalinization plant. Especially a state like Georgia if we can run underground oil pipelines across this country. If we can connect every power line together in grids. It shouldn't be hard to accomplish this, considering the state of Georgia, is almost the same size as some of the countries in the Middle East who are using this technology. Why tie up valuable real estate for new reservoirs when they could be used either for state parks or left in the hands of the people who already own the land. I am no tree hugger, but let's face it, open wilderness is completely gone. And if Georgia took this step. It would no longer be depended upon the whims of the Federal Government or the Corps of Engineers the old water systems could remain intact and be used in case of a breakdown with desalinization operation
BTW you can poke fun at this now, if you want, but with rising populations nationwide, it will be national issue. And this is a possible solution

 

Hardcorp. The problem with a desalination plant (Besides being costly compared to just taking our Georgia's huge abundent source of Fresh Water) is it would have to be built on the coast of Georgia which is almost all protected by the Federal Government. Of the craploads of Islands in Georgia Humans are only allowed on 4 of them with 3 being habitated. 1(Skidaway) I think is only open to researches and tourists.

The truth is our water crisis wouldn't be if we had the regular amount of water being discharged from the dam. Instead they are sending it downstream to Alabama(Who does not have water restrictions and buys water from Georgia) in order to protect fish and mussles. If we weren't sending it out our lake would be low yes. But not even close to what it is now.

Lake Oconee isn't low nor is Sinclair. But those have to stay full in order to cool the coal and nuclear powerplants.

 

wow, thats insane

 

wow, i have been out to lake lanier a few times for rowing regattas when i was in highschool, its insane to see it like that now. pray for rain and smarter government. in the mean time you can always hold ralley/mud races on the lake beds.

 

Damn depressing........[&o]

 

I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject mater to know what the long-term solution is other than rain but from everything I read it seems all the neighboring states keep putting up roadblocks to any quick term solutions GA comes up with .. which I can't understand .. seems like the same old politics game while everyone else suffers.

One silver lining however is that between all the PSA's and some counties doing away with the warning system and going straight to $100 fine on first violation and cut off water on 2nd .. these seem to be having positive effects based on what I'm reading (but it's still up to each individual county to do so). It also seems that another good byproduct of this bad situation is that people are finally taking small steps to not waste at least this one natural resource. Doing even little things like shorter showers, less grass watering, not leave running water while brushing teeth, etc.. that most of the rest of the world has been doing forever. That's something good we can take out of it even if there wasn't a shortage. Sad that it takes a drastic situation as a motivator but like rising gasoline prices, money seems to be the greatest motivation to save natural resources.

One final thing; I think the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" is probably true in this case. There was never a need for a solution to the water crisis before but now that there is, I'm sure somewhere out there is someone or company hard at work to come up with alternative solutions. For example, right now one of the largest waste of water is outdoor watering (lawns, etc..) and the source is the same as our drinking water, the solution has been to use the septic line but water companies discourage this by making the initial set up costs not very efficient so hardly anyone does it but I'm sure now they'll start lowering those costs as well as giving tax credits for doing so.

Sorry, didn't mean to write a book on a subject I started off saying I have little knowledge on [8D]

 

hey kewl breeze where do you live right now? I'm in Macon and was just in Kennesaw and it looks like no low lakes here or there... just wondering