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Monday, October 1, 2007
Half-empty or half-full? Two views of state’s handling of drought
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Last week the director of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division banned virtually all residential outdoor water use in metro Atlanta and the rest of North Georgia.
Has this happened because state leaders knew a water shortage like we are experiencing was inevitable but failed to make the tough decisions necessary to prepare has Jay Bookman argues in this column?
Or is the region actually coping well witih this drought because of lessons learned from the 1999-2002 drought as three academic experts claim in this op-ed.
What is your opinion? Are state officials doing a good or bad job in handling the regions water demand? Do you forsee more trouble in the future or you encouraged that lessons of the past combined with technological advances in the future will ward of more water crises?
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