Five years ago, a group of people interested in the future of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin began looking to accomplish something politicians couldn’t do in two decades of legal wrangling — find solutions to sharing water. And do it, mind you, with agreement among all parties involved. “That was absolutely necessary, because if we had gone another route of saying majority rules, then people would not have stayed with it,” said Wilton Rooks, a vice president with the Gainesville-based Lake Lanier Association and one of the ACF Stakeholders’ founding members.
River basin group aims for unity in water-sharing talks
