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Local leaders encouraged by water wars arguments in U.S. Supreme Court hearing
Florida lawyers fared well in last week’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the “water wars” between the state and Georgia, officials who sat through the hearing said. Rep. Neal Dunn, who was among them, said he felt Florida has a real shot of winning the case.,, “Georgia came off some pretty harsh questioning – a lot of harsh interrogatories, and a lot of apparent disbelief on the part of the justices in what they were hearing from Georgia.”,,, Florida says a steady supply of water is the last chance for Apalachicola Bay’s struggling oyster industry and endangered species. >click here to read< 17:45
Water wars: What does Florida have that Georgia needs?
U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson was writing from the Middle District of Florida. “Too often, state, local, and even national government actors do not consider the long-term consequences of their decisions,” he wrote. “Local governments allow unchecked growth because it increases tax revenue, but these same governments do not sufficiently plan for the resources such unchecked growth will require. “Nor do individual citizens consider frequently enough their consumption of our scarce resources absent a crisis situation …” he wrote. “The problems faced in the (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint) basin will continue to be repeated throughout this country, as the population grows and more undeveloped land is developed.”more@ledgerinquirer 09:58
