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Georgia denies Florida's allegations in water wars lawsuit
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Ralph I. Lancaster
Georgia denies that Florida’s Apalachicola region is “suffering serious harm” because of Georgia’s increasing storage and consumption of water from the Chattahoochee and Flint river basins, according to a document filed in the U.S. Supreme Court. Georgia has filed its response to Florida’s petition to equally divide waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin, which includes Lake Lanier and also straddles part of Alabama. In its Nov. 3 complaint, Florida alleged “large and ever-increasing amounts of water” have been consumed for government, industrial, recreational and agricultural uses permitted by Georgia.