Water Wars Hearing Puts Focus On Georgia Farmers

Attorneys for Florida and Georgia appeared in court Thursday for a case in the decadeslong water wars.

Florida says Georgia uses too much water, and that’s harming the Apalachicola Bay in the panhandle, and the oyster industry that relies on it. It’s asked the U.S. Supreme Court to limit how much water Georgia can use.

Initially, Florida was critical both of metro Atlanta’s water use from the Chattahoochee and of farmers’ water withdrawals in the Flint River basin, but the case has come to focus on the Flint River and the farmers there.