Water War Rogue
Amidst the three way water war with Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, an extraordinary profligate is revealed.
A homeowner in Marietta, Ga., used 440,000 gallons in September, or about 14,700 gallons a day. By comparison, the average consumption in the United States is about 150 gallons a day per person, and in the Atlanta metropolitan area about 183 gallons.
Wow. That’s impressive. He has averaged 260,000 gallons a month for the past year.
In the middle of the worst drought in the region in over 100 years, Georgia’s Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked God to forgive Georgia for being wasteful with its water. (How bad is it? “Since August, the town of Orme, Tenn., which has run out of water completely, has had to use an old fire truck to ferry about 20,000 gallons of water a day from nearby Alabama.”)
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