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Georgia seeks water disaster declaration
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10.20.2007
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| Georgia seeks water disaster declaration Georgia seeks water disaster declaration 10/20/07 [QUOTE] CUMMING, Ga. - With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia officials warn that Lake Lanier, a 38,000-acre reservoir that supplies more than 3 million residents with water, is less than three months from depletion. Smaller reservoirs are dropping even lower. Perdue asked the president to exempt Georgia from complying with federal regulations that dictate the amount of water released from Georgia's reservoirs to protect federally protected mussel species downstream. "We need to cut through the tangle of unnecessary bureaucracy to manage our resources prudently — so that in the long term, all species may have access to life-sustaining water," he said. Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area. [/quote] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/...uthern_drought  |
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