This for me as a Georgian, is a complete embarrasment. Gov. Purdue and Lt. Gov Cagle are looking for the quick and easy way out and in the process pissing other states off. What we should be doing is investing in real solutions, like desalination plants or other practical projects. Not adjusting borders or suing in courts, that resolves nothing.
In the West, water belongs to whoever used it ( homesteaded it ) first. You don’t get to use water upstream until downstream users with prior claims are serviced first.
In the East, it is strictly Riparian. Upstream users can dam the river, and sell all of the water to Saudi Arabia, if they want. People downstream get to pound sand.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
This for me as a Georgian, is a complete embarrasment. Gov. Purdue and Lt. Gov Cagle are looking for the quick and easy way out and in the process pissing other states off. What we should be doing is investing in real solutions, like desalination plants or other practical projects. Not adjusting borders or suing in courts, that resolves nothing.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it
Here’s a flag for you Tennessee, just change the symbol from a cannon to a water faucet and put a circle with 3 stars in place of the one star. 🙂
February 27th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Haven’t those guys in Georgia ever heard of the King’s Mountain boys?
February 27th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
In the West, water belongs to whoever used it ( homesteaded it ) first. You don’t get to use water upstream until downstream users with prior claims are serviced first.
In the East, it is strictly Riparian. Upstream users can dam the river, and sell all of the water to Saudi Arabia, if they want. People downstream get to pound sand.