By Diana

May 9, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Stay on Topic

I'll stay on topic if you do - my comment was directed at Ritch and being told to buy my vegetables at a store.

Were you thinking of Sole fish when you responded? I don't even see a response by anyone using that name.

By David

May 6, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

I personally prefer organic foods and don't trust that all foods at the store are just because it has the word on the label. Not to mention that I buy products with minimal packaging in order to reduce my carbon footprint. All these so-called luxuries you carelessly enjoy come with a price and I don't care contribute to the depletion of our resources.

So, in other words you're a wacko tree hugger that bought into the lies of Al Gore.

By Stay on Topic

May 4, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

Diana, you are off topic and therefore useless.

Sole said in his letter that Lanier doesn't need any more water because it is more than half full. Then he says reducing the water to Florida will hurt his economy.

Well, in rebuttal, couldn't we assume that having any less water in Lanier would hurt Georgia's economy? Many reports clearly show it has...ask Pikes Nurseries (out of business) and many landscapers.

But to argue Sole's point... Lanier is fine because it is more than half full. So would Florida not be fine, then, as long as we send a mere 51% of what they actually want?

By J Daigrepont

May 3, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

All of the lakes south of Lanier are ABOVE full pool and there has been more rain falling south of Atlanta. It would seem reasonable to give Lanier an opportunity to recover with all the excess water south of Lanier. The folks from AL & FL need to understand that if there was NO Atlanta and NO Lanier, the river would be flowing much lower today. They have more water then they need, yet they still expect more, even more then what exist in our lake. Now is the time to give Lanier a chance to catch up. What about our economy and people in N. Georgia who depend on Lanier for their income? One more thing, AL & FL are doing nothing to conserve water ý why should they have too much as it is. (BTW ý Lanier is still 14 feet below normal 2 months before we enter into summer)

By Diana

May 1, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Ritch,

You are the one that's saying the H---- with everyone else and here's why.

You aren't very worried about what's in/on the foods you buy at the store are you? I personally prefer organic foods and don't trust that all foods at the store are just because it has the word on the label. Not to mention that I buy products with minimal packaging in order to reduce my carbon footprint. All these so-called luxuries you carelessly enjoy come with a price and I don't care contribute to the depletion of our resources.

Furthermore, have you noticed that the cost of everything in the grocery store is going up and will continue to go up? I won't feel badly for growing whatever food I can from seed when i can buy a pack of seeds for $1 that will produce enough food to feed me all summer with plenty left over to can and freeze for the winter.

Let me guess. You live in a house, drive a car, have furnishings and wear clothes that you're still paying for. Not all of us want to live off our credit - we might end up like many of those that have fallen to foreclosure and bankruptcy, a place you might find all too familar someday. Be sure to put your name on that sign when you're begging for food. I might be nice enough to give you a tomato from my garden. I won't give you water though. I'll send your share to Florida.

By dirtycat

May 1, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

I say just dam up the rivers and streams at the Georgia lines and let each state live with what they have or get.

By VS

May 1, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

People vs. sea life. Who is more important? Some would say the sea life. Would they if they had no water to drink because their portion went to the sea life?

By Sharon

May 1, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

What about the ecosystems and economy of Lake Lanier? They are being compromised to save the oysters, sturgeons and mussels in Florida. Give me a break.

By Sharon

May 1, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

What about the ecosystems and economy of Lake Lanier? They are being compromised to save the oysters, sturgeons and mussels in Florida. Give me a break.

By get serious

May 1, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

FL is surrounded by water for God's sake, I think it's about time they started looking at desalinization instead of expecting humans to go without drinking water to preserve marine life that's just going to end up in a stew anyway.

As for AL, they need to build some additional reservoirs from the TN river and get real. Allatoona isn't much of a reservoir to start with.

GA needs to build more reservoirs and adopt better conservation habits that are applicable to developers, business (including Sonny's landscapers) and homeowners!

This is water war crap all grandstanding on the part of FL and AL anyway.