Stefanie wrote:

Rattle wrote:
No way. Georgia will have to take it by force! I'll come down to help defend the border if necessary...

When I initially saw the topic title, I thought it was a headline from The Onion. Amazing...

Not so amazing considering the constant water issues we have down here on a regular basis.

I'd like to see how much of the blame can be put on suburbanites. I have a suspicion, certainly a product of my bias, that all those assholes watering their lawns out in Gwinett are a large part of the problem.

I've been arguing for urbanization on the basis of environmentalism (not to mention other factors) for some time now, but I've never gotten specific data on this. I'd like to see per-capita water usage by county (or something smaller if possible).

Giant personal lawns are a goddamn travesty against nature, as far as I'm concerned, and they should all be done away with.

[EDIT] I've acquired these data now, and will provide them soon. In the meantime, this is an interesting map from the USGS that shows, essentially, the percentage of renewable water supplies that have been developed, by region. Of course, it's naive to assume that the low percentage places can just develop those sources, since other environmental factors aren't applied to this calculus. Still, interesting data point.

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