Bringing Water Back into the Discussion

Atlanta provided a wakeup call in 2007. With the city’s primary water source, Lake Lanier, almost dry and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue holding prayer vigils for rain, a region that normally sloshes in over 50 inches (130 cm) of rainfall per year was grappling with drought. The heavens may have heeded Perdue’s prayers (at least temporarily), but not before the region was awakened to the fact that water shortage isn’t limited to the chronically dry West.

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