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.