Next month, Georgia goes to court in a contentious battle with Florida over water, the latest in the long-running water wars. Now there is a new wrinkle: Earlier this month state officials declared a drought in 53 Georgia counties, including all of Atlanta.
Florida is suing Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court, saying not enough water makes it down the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers to Florida’s Apalachicola Bay.
The states have been fighting for decades – sometimes with Alabama too – over the water they share and whether there’s enough of it to go around.
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