This is really where the problem lies ahead on our planet, IMO: Water. Water for drinking, for crops, for industry, for transportation. I do have one suggestion: If people cut back on all their soda pop and drink the water it's made from as water, it'll do both water supply and health some good. Win-win. :-)
Hey it could get even worse. I see a dystopian future in which wars between the states are waged over dwindling water supplies. It could star Kevin Costner. So, just giving up a little bit of your state's territory to a vastly superior (if thirsty) one is a small price to pay.
I see this as an urban/suburban version of the old Grasshopper and Ant fable. Once there was a Grasshopper named Atlanta, who didn't plan her freakish expansion in a sustainable or responsible way, and ended up taking up half the real estate in Georgia. Her neighbors all around had planned slightly better, or at least had been blessed with fewer people wanting to live there, and had stocked up plenty of water to last through the long, dry summers and winters of 2007 and 2008. The Grasshopper was feeling very thirsty, and cried and cried. But the Ants were afraid that if the Grasshopper got even a dipperful of water from their well she would come back and drink every last drop, because Grasshoppers are much bigger than little ants and drink ever so much more in one sitting.
(When I saw this point I had to add you as an exception to my "no hot linking" filter)
Well, as someone born and bred inside the perimeter, I do feel bad for the bind some areas (like say the Atlanta city proper and DeKalb County) find themselves in. A lot of the irresponsible and poorly planned growth can be pinned on the DOTs lack of interest in supporting any sort of multimodal transit. And think if more of that road money was spent on a second reservoir, too...
so if they redraw the line, will St. Elmo be part of Flintstone or something? yeah I cant wait to pay GA income tax! at least the schools are supposedly better...
What a terrible looking sign to mark the 3 state boundary in that Times article. All 3 states deserve better, but make Georgia pay for a new one since they claim it's on their land.
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This is really where the problem lies ahead on our planet, IMO: Water. Water for drinking, for crops, for industry, for transportation. I do have one suggestion: If people cut back on all their soda pop and drink the water it's made from as water, it'll do both water supply and health some good. Win-win. :-)
Hey it could get even worse. I see a dystopian future in which wars between the states are waged over dwindling water supplies. It could star Kevin Costner. So, just giving up a little bit of your state's territory to a vastly superior (if thirsty) one is a small price to pay.
(Sorry, I'm a former Georgian...)
I see this as an urban/suburban version of the old Grasshopper and Ant fable. Once there was a Grasshopper named Atlanta, who didn't plan her freakish expansion in a sustainable or responsible way, and ended up taking up half the real estate in Georgia. Her neighbors all around had planned slightly better, or at least had been blessed with fewer people wanting to live there, and had stocked up plenty of water to last through the long, dry summers and winters of 2007 and 2008. The Grasshopper was feeling very thirsty, and cried and cried. But the Ants were afraid that if the Grasshopper got even a dipperful of water from their well she would come back and drink every last drop, because Grasshoppers are much bigger than little ants and drink ever so much more in one sitting.
(When I saw this point I had to add you as an exception to my "no hot linking" filter)
Well, as someone born and bred inside the perimeter, I do feel bad for the bind some areas (like say the Atlanta city proper and DeKalb County) find themselves in. A lot of the irresponsible and poorly planned growth can be pinned on the DOTs lack of interest in supporting any sort of multimodal transit. And think if more of that road money was spent on a second reservoir, too...
so if they redraw the line, will St. Elmo be part of Flintstone or something? yeah I cant wait to pay GA income tax! at least the schools are supposedly better...
What a terrible looking sign to mark the 3 state boundary in that Times article. All 3 states deserve better, but make Georgia pay for a new one since they claim it's on their land.
We need to build a wall to keep the aliens out.
Fletch, it's too late; I'm already here.
Don't deport me! =)
2nd reservoir - instead of high speed train to chattanooga ... Bring It On!
p.s. born and raised in north GA.
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