A Jan. 24 deadline has been set for Georgia and Florida to try again to settle a U.S. Supreme Court dispute over water consumption in a basin the two states share. “The parties shall meet and confer … with the services of a mediator, if at all possible, in a good faith effort to reach a framework for settlement,” said Ralph I. Lancaster in a one-page order Tuesday. The Maine lawyer was tapped by the Supreme Court to preside over the latest legal battle in what has been a protracted “water wars” between Georgia, Florida and Alabama.