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The Importance Of Drinking Water In Georgia

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Water plays a vital role in everyday life, from quenching your thirst on a hot summer day, to being one of the main ingredient of life in all aspects on earth.
Recently, Georgia has been under a severe water drought. Lake Lanier in Georgia, which is a major supply of drinking water to its state, and neighboring states Alabama, and Florida; has been at its lowest in years. Georgia’s drought is certainly due to the lack of precipitation; therefore, creating water levels to decline more rapidly as time progresses. The state has now asked its homeowners to monitor their water usage, which includes watering lawns, washing cars, and other outside water activities.
As a resident of Duluth Georgia, which is located approximately twenty miles north …show more content…

One of Georgia’s main drinking water source is supplied from its man-made lake located in Hall County, which is approximately 45 miles north of its capital Atlanta. Lake Sidney Lanier, water levels are currently at a frightening low point. According to USA Today, a federal judge recently ruled, that the metropolitan Atlanta has been illegally taking water from Lake Lanier, because he states the lake was built for hydroelectric power generation and other uses — not for drinking water. (usatoday.com) Lake Sidney Lanier has also provided its neighbors Alabama, and Florida water, and is currently in a “water war”. Congress is currently forcing these three states to come up with a solution, to evenly distribute water amongst them in the near future, before there are forced to relocate the water at Lake Lanier. If the problem persists, it can actually be devastating in the state of Georgia; Commissioner Charles Bannister, said that Lake Lanier could actually become a dessert if it’s ever drained. However, the state representative is very confident that a solution will be meet in the near future. This current conflict has put a strain on the local environment economically according to leaders in Apalachicola, Fla., who say their seafood industry has been hammered by lower stream levels caused by Atlanta's withdrawals. (usatoday.com) With Georgia in another …show more content…

Georgia’s farm life are taking a direct punch from this crisis. In article, “Newton farmers struggling to produce in the midst of drought”, I’ve thought how farmers are dealing with this current drought situation? Since Georgia is known as the “Peach State”, as one of its famous nickname. Well, farmers in Newton County, Georgia are definitely feeling the effects with “corn yields in the county are half of what they were last year, and soybeans – barely a quarter of last year’s output”(Rimal, G 2016). According to farmers, the lack of rain has a ripple effect from not only damages it has on the crops and livestock; 1 but the lively hood of farmers, and their families. Farmers speaks about an abundance of armyworms, that if there is “any remaining green grass or hay left, armyworms will easily devour them” (Rimal, G 2016). Therefore, knowing how vital water is, farmers in Newton County Georgia, are continuing to remain optimistic in hopes next season will be

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