Where do the tri-state water wars fit into all of this? What about South Carolina?
The tri-state water compacts (officially known as the Interstate Water Compacts negotiations) would have established limits on the amount of water available to Georgia (and Alabama and Florida) in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) basins. The negotiations broke down, and both Compacts have been allowed to expire over the past two years. The courts will now have to decide how the water in these basins will be allocated among the three states, and Georgias choice of water management systems will have implications for the upcoming legal battles. On the other side of the state, Georgia has recently begun discussions with South Carolina over allocation of water in the Savannah River Basin. We hope that these bi-state discussions will not devolve into protracted court battles and that the ultimate agreement respects the ecology of the river system.
