Robert Glennon, the University of Arizona's Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy, suggests that much like Atlanta, other states in the nation will continue to struggle over issues of water as water tables continue to drop but the population rate continues to hike.
Released February 5, 2010
ATLANTA, Ga. – On June 10, 2009, state officials in Georgia declared that the severe three-year drought that parched metro Atlanta and much of the Southeast was finally over. But the reprieve will be brief: The Atlanta region's next water shortage begins on July 17, 2012.
Atlanta doesn't know that specific date because of some scientific advance in weather forecasting. Instead, it knows the date because metro Atlanta's next drought will be a man-made one. And the man who's making it is Paul Magnuson.
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