It’s a drought, stupid! pt. 3: Georgia and the Chattahoochee River

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Jared Simpson

The first three words of the prologue of Jeffry Rothfeder’s 2001 book, Every Drop for Sale (at Amazon you can read the prologue; also a comprehensive review here) are The Chattahoochee River, set off from the text that follows with tasteful small caps. The Chattahoochee feeds Lake Lanier, Georgia’s rapidly-depleting primary reservoir.
Titled Beginning: Scenes of [...]

Filed under: Apalachicola, Atlanta, Atlanta drought, Chattahootchee River, Cynthia Barnett, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental destruction, Flint River, Florida, Georgia drought, Jeffrey Rothfeder, Randy Golden, The Hooch, drought | No Comments »

Shocking news: Bush Administration failing to enforce the Clean Water Act!!

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Jared Simpson

The Waterblogged.info team is shocked, totally Casablanca shocked, to learn the following from a local and occasionally reliable source:
More than half of all industrial and municipal facilities across the country dumped more sewage and other pollutants into the nation’s waterways than allowed under the Clean Water Act, (summary here) according to a report released [...]

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