Georgia and Florida go to court later this month to argue over water that they’ve been fighting about for decades. This week, the states laid out the cases they plan to make.
In its pre-trial brief, Florida says that Georgia uses too much water from the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers for Atlanta homes and businesses and for south Georgia farms.
Florida says that’s killing its oyster industry in the Apalachicola Bay, hurting the economy there, and affecting other animals. So it’s asking for a cap – a limit on how much water Georgia can consume.
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