Florida, Georgia and Alabama have argued for nearly 30 years over the water in the rivers the states share. Since late 2013, the most prominent piece of that fight has been a U.S. Supreme Court case in which Florida asked the justices to limit how much water Georgia can use.
Thursday, lawyers for the states go to court again for a hearing in the case that could affect the future of Georgia’s biggest industry, as well as a Florida ecosystem and the jobs and wildlife that rely on it.
Florida claims Georgia uses too much water from the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, and not enough of it makes it down to the Apalachicola River and Bay in the Florida Panhandle. The state said it’s taken a toll on both on the environment there and on Apalachicola Bay’s oysters.
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