{"id":3622,"date":"2007-10-20T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/10\/atlanta-has-less-than-90days-o.html"},"modified":"2007-10-20T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T07:12:00","slug":"atlanta-has-less-than-90days-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/10\/atlanta-has-less-than-90days-o.html","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta has less than 90-days of water left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join me in praying that Atlanta gets rain soon. They are in the middle of a severe drought<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With the South in the grip of an epic drought and its largest city holding less than a 90-day supply of water, officials are scrambling to deal with the worst-case scenario: What if Atlanta’s faucets really do go dry?
\nSo far, no real backup plan exists. And there are no quick fixes among suggested solutions, which include piping water in from rivers in neighboring states, building more regional reservoirs, setting up a statewide recycling system or even desalinating water from the Atlantic Ocean.
\n“It’s amazing that things have come to this,” said Ray Wiedman, owner of an Atlanta landscaper business. “Everybody knew the growth was coming. We haven’t had a plan for all the people coming here?”
\n[…]
\nMore than a quarter of the Southeast is covered by an “exceptional” drought-the National Weather Service’s worst drought category. The Atlanta area, with a population of 5 million, is smack in the middle of the affected region, which extends like a dark cloud over most of Tennessee, Alabama and the northern half of Georgia, as well as parts of North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia.
\nState officials warn that Lake Lanier, a 38,000-acre north Georgia reservoir that supplies more than 3 million residents with water, is already less than three months from depletion. Smaller reservoirs are dropping even lower, forcing local governments to consider rationing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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