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Georgia, Florida face tough questions from US Supreme Court in water wars case
Lake Lanier
A Gainesville man who was found after drowning on Wednesday, June 5, marked the second drowning victim at Lake Lanier this year. - photo by Scott Rogers
Georgia and Florida faced tough questions about their water dispute in their hour before U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday. Justices grilled attorneys from both sides on the merits of their respective cases, according to the transcripts posted online, trying to tease out a solution to the decades-old water fight over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin.