Most of you not from the far SE US are probably unaware of the fact that Georgia, Alabama, and Florida are fighting over water rights.

Well, alabama and Florida have just won a major case, over the allocation of water from the federal Lake Lanier reservoir.

The judge ruled that, “agreement between Georgia and the Army Corps of Engineers that would have given Georgia rights to use nearly a quarter of the water …. was void because the two parties had not first obtained Congressional approval.”

As is the case with most such cases, this has been bubbling along^* for the past 20 or so years, and has been compounded by the drought, and by Georgia’s unwillingness to take steps to ensure adequate water to feed its growth.

In related news, the very next day,Sonny “He’s Not a Schmuck Because a Schmuck Has a Head^†” Purdue has announced will be allowing folks to fill their swimming pools and water their lawns.

This is a metaphor for what will be the next resource fight, potable water.

If conflict over the past 35 years has been largely defined by fights over oil, fights over the next few decades will be over water.

It will be far more brutal, because people don’t die without oil.

^*Pun intended.
^†True…Learn your Yiddish.