Possible Solutions to Atlanta Water Crisis

This continues from the same article as the previous clip -- I thought it was important enough to do one clip on the problem and one on possible solutions.

clipped from www.adn.com Former Gov. Roy Barnes, a Democrat who was defeated in 2002, told reporters this week that he had planned to offer grants to fix leaks that waste millions of gallons of water each year. He also said he planned to build three new state reservoirs in north and west Georgia to help insulate the state from a future water crisis It seems the idea of building state reservoirs is gaining steam in the Legislature as Georgia's battle with the Corps over federal reservoirs heats up. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said he favors building more regional reservoirs shared by multiple communities to harness the 50 trillion gallons of water that fall over Georgia each year. start using more "purple water" - waste water that is partially treated and can be used for irrigation, fire fighting and uses other than drinking all outdoor watering across was banned across the northern half of the state, restaurants were asked to serve water only at a customer's request take shorter showers

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