Georgia, Alabama and Florida Water Conflict

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the situation went out of hand. Moreover to add to the trouble, the drought condition became worse, and the number of industries that were coming up inclined to use a lot of water resources. And not to forget the population increase together have been responsible for the problems that have arisen among the three south eastern states over the amount of water that need to be allocated to them.

Though there was water shortage, the actual arguments within the states started when in 1990, Atlanta city after realizing that in future they would be needing much more water because of their increasing population and their other needs, decided to take permission from the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to build a new reservoir on the Chattahoochee River, the Flint River and the Coosa River. This would mean that they had more water stored in their Lake Sidney Lanier, nearly 529 gallons of water, so that they would have more water to use. Moreover, the long-term plan aimed at taking out ...

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hold talks. All along, Alabama and Georgia have had arguments over their water supply and their quantity of water in the Alabama -Coosa-Tallapoosa basins. Georgia, Alabama and Florida decided to form two interstate water compacts in 1997. They formed the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa Compact (ACT) and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Compact (ACF), to clearly state as to how the water resources should be distributed among the states. This argument is most commonly known as "tri-state water wars". (Kundell and Tetens, 26)

Several negotiations were being held and numerous proposals were being submitted and it is now agreed by the all three states that they may have to come up with ...

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