This is the first time anyone has ever wanted anything to do with Tennessee

Hell, one Tennessean can whip ten Georgians.

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

Who cares? Hopefully they'll start a war and a bunch of rednecks and republicans will kill each other.

Bone dry in Georgia?

Here ya go...




/Really, really sorry. Couldna help it. ^_^
//Ya know where over 50 per cent of the worlds supply of fresh water is?
///Plus over 60 percent of the worlds fresh water lakes too, eh?

Civil War II?

/Lives in northeast Alabama
//Wouldn't mind seeing Nashville bomb Atlanta.

Sounds like it's time to send in the Confederate Air Force.

Georgia could try buying water. Water is property, and its not free.

I thought they prayed that problem away...

Prayer is the tinfoil hat that idiots wear to keep reality out of their brainwaves.

I guess they didn't pray hard enough.

Token Anarchist: Who cares? Hopefully they'll start a war and a bunch of rednecks and republicans will kill each other.

Well, if this is the reaction they get from most democrats...

Was talking with friends around here about this. I said, "I'm pretty sure our National Guard can take theirs."

To prevent a flamewar over it, I won't say which state I'm in right now. :P

Sad. Really sad.

F42: I thought they prayed that problem away...

Prayer is the tinfoil hat that idiots wear to keep reality out of their brainwaves.

By the way, GA isn't bone dry any more. Maybe it worked. Most the lakes and rivers in the state are full except the two reservoirs (Altoona and Lanier) that serve as water sources for Atlanta. Their levels are rising.

WorldCitizen: Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

FTW

Where's your War Between the States now?

As a native Georgian I am truely ashamed by my state leaders silly attempts to cover their own failures and lack of leadership on the issue of water resource management by carrying out these silly "water wars" with bordering states. The Atlanta metro area has been one of the fastest growing cities in the country for at least the last 20 years yet there was not any serious effort to plan for the effects of the is rapid population growth on our limited water resources. The current Republican governor and state legislature have yet to formulate a serious plan to address this issue both now and in the future. But while our lakes still are drying up and the drought is still in effect, the Republican governor and state legislature voted to reduce state watering restrictions under the influence of business lobbyists. But yet they try to stake claim to other states resources to cover their own lack of leadership on this issue. They have failed the people of Georgia miserably and tried to cover their tracks with shell game of half baked legal tactics. The only revolt should be the people of Georgia removing them from office at election time.

I'd be very surprised if Georgia pulled this one off. This is strictly a political ploy to mask someone having dropped the ball earlier in terms of water resource management.

And Atlanta is too large.

By the way, AirForceVet: both Georgia and Tennessee were Confederate states.

I'm not from Georgia, but I was going to say pretty much the same thing as EwoksSuck said. Here we have a prime opportunity to inform people about why water policy is important and we should take actions on resource management, and instead we get a governor who calls for the citizens of the state to pray for rain.

Never was any thought put into the fact that Georgia is encouraging coal-burning power plants that consume millions upon millions of gallons per water per day, or how to increase the efficiency of water used for irrigating crops. Instead, we're told to pray for rain. I long for the days when our politicians are also policy wonks who realize that there's more to running a city or a state or a nation than simply making broad populist appeals to citizens without having any actual thought of taking action to rectify the problem.