Waterblogged

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 [...]

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This just in from our generally reliable Atlanta source: Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has declared a state of emergency due to the alarmingly persistent statewide drought. Georgians are waking up to the fact that they are running out of water and that the weather isn’t poised to perform a last-second rescue–meteorologists predict an unusually [...]

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