Opinion: It shouldn’t be impossible to end the water wars that center on Lake Lanier and its river basin - Gainesville Times

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Opinion: It shouldn’t be impossible to end the water wars that center on Lake Lanier and its river basin

City of Gainesville water intake from Lake Lanier near the Riverside water treatment plant. - photo by Scott Rogers

Water Intake 1.jpg — City of Gainesville water intake from Lake Lanier near the Riverside water treatment plant. - photo by Scott Rogers

Another hearing. Another decade. And on marches the seemingly never-ending “war” between Georgia and Florida over the use of water from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin.