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Florida stewing over missing Georgia emails in water wars case
Despite rift, states moving toward settlement
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Although moving toward a possible settlement, Florida is taking Georgia to task for missing emails it considers relevant as part of the two states’ ongoing water wars. “The failure to preserve these emails may have legal implications as this continues,” Florida states in a March 4 filing in the U.S. Supreme Court case. In 2015, as part of the states’ gathering of documents to build their respective cases, Georgia disclosed that the email accounts of at least three personnel, including one former Environmental Protection Division director, “had been deleted or otherwise destroyed,” Florida said.