Georgia is looking for double victories against Alabama on Monday -- and not just on the football field.
A key matchup will occur earlier in the day at the U.S. Supreme Court, when the justices will hear oral arguments in a long-simmering water dispute for the first time.
Florida sued Georgia for taking too much water out of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin, hastening the collapse of its oyster industry in the panhandle.
The case represents a major legal tributary in the decades-long tri-state water wars that have cost Georgia tens of millions of dollars in legal fees.
Alabama isn’t an official party to this specific case but is watching nervously from the sidelines. It also has similar litigation against Georgia for its water usage, and a Peach State victory against Florida could make its case harder to win.
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