It’d be a stretch, but kind of fun, to blame Atlanta’s water troubles on Gen. William T. Sherman, whose Union troops burned the city and anything else that got in his way on his March to the Sea during the Civil War. Alabama and Florida, as well as some South Georgians, point to Atlanta as the culprit in taking more than its share of water from the Chattahoochee River basin, namely Lake Lanier. The three states have been haggling over water issues now for decades.