Atlanta Running Out of Water

clipped from www.adn.com exposed lake bed at West Bank Park on Lake Lanier in Buford, Ga. No backup if Atlanta's faucets run dry less than a 90-day supply of water Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue seems to be pinning his hopes on a two-pronged approach: urging water conservation and reducing water flowing out of federally controlled lakes Perdue's office on Friday asked a Florida federal judge to force the Army Corps of Engineers to curb the amount of water draining from Georgia reservoirs into Alabama and Florida More than a quarter of the Southeast is covered by an "exceptional" drought - the National Weather Service's worst drought category most of Tennessee, Alabama and the northern half of Georgia, as well as parts of North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia Lake Lanier, a 38,000-acre north Georgia reservoir that supplies more than 3 million residents with water, is already less than three months from depletion