Politics
Georgia serious about resolving water wars
By Dan Chapman
Dec 1, 2015Georgia is serious about mediating the end of the 25-year-long water war with Florida, says Brad Currey, the dean of metro Atlanta’s public and nonprofit efforts to resolve the dispute.
Currey, a board member for the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, said Tuesday that Georgia is heeding the advice of the so-called special master, appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court, to resolve the latest lawsuit over ways to share water from the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers with Florida.
Georgia last month requested a mediator to bring Gov. Nathan Deal and his Florida counterpart to the negotiating table.
“I have to believe they are serious about mediation because the special master told them if he writes the decision nobody will be happy with it,” Currey, who also shepherded a nonprofit group’s recommendations for sharing the waters among Georgia, Florida and Alabama, said during a lunchtime presentation of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta.
