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ABC News recently carried a story on its website about how Celine Dion’s estate-under-construction in Florida consumed 6.5 million gallons of water last year, despite a drought in the southeast, despite the strain South Florida’s freshwater supply, and despite the fact that Celine doesn’t even live there. Included in the article was this bit of trivia: Experts [...] 
A couple of blogs I follow have mentioned that the May issue of Popular Mechanics includes a feature called, “10 Pieces of U.S. Infrastructure We Must Fix Now”. I’ve seen the feature mentioned in the context of Atlanta’s water shortage, but the entire list is actually rather interesting to me (not surprising, given [...] 
I’ve written previously about Georgia’s desire to annex part of southeastern Tennessee to gain access to water in the Tennessee River, to alleviate pressure arising from poor planning prior to the drought. The AJC has an article on what seems to be a more realistic solution—make nice with the feds, who actually own the plot of [...]
Seen in the Chattanoogan: The mayor has officially proclaimed Feb. 27, 2008, as “Give our Georgia Friends a Drink Day.” The proclamation comes as a result of the Georgia Legislature passing a joint resolution that seeks to pursue reestablishing the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee. The truck load of bottled water along with the proclamation will be [...]
Just when I had written off plans for Georgia to push their border a half-mile further north as the sort of weird bill one normally sees introduced at the start of a state legislative session, there’s this story from the AJC: Last week, the House and Senate passed separate measures requiring the state of Georgia to [...]
In my two visits to Las Vegas, I have been somewhat disturbed by the excesses of The Strip, including just how much water is wasted in the Nevada desert. Maybe the days of such excess are numbered. From Reuters: The study by two researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego [...] 
For those in the Southeast who might be anxious about the world coming to an end thanks to the drought, perhaps a story in Sunday’s Sydney morning Herald might offer some hope: As at 9am yesterday, Sydney had received a whopping 172.4 millimetres since the start of February, compared with 4.4 millimetres for the same period [...] 
I’ve been reading Eric Flynt’s 1812: The Rivers of War an alternate-history fictional retelling of events during the War of 1812 in which the antics of some land-grabbing Georgians play a role. So I was oddly amused to hear about current real-world antics of land- (and water-) grabbing Georgians. From the Tennesseean: A resolution in Georgia’s [...] 
One of the things I miss from when I lived in southern Alabama was just how cheap electricity was. Perhaps soon folks in that part of the country will also have similar feelings. From the AJC: Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this [...]
Seen in the Orlando Sentinel: Several fast-growing northeast Florida communities could tap into the Atlantic Ocean for drinking water by anchoring a desalination ship 2½ miles off the coast. If completed, the floating water factory could become the first major ocean-desalination system in the United States. The idea is to retrofit an oil tanker with filters and [...] |
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