There will be two major meetings in the next few weeks to discuss the ongoing water dispute between Georgia, Alabama and Florida. For nearly 20 years the three states have been battling over how to best share water from the Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint River system. The battle has taken on an added urgency recently after a federal judge ruled that the City of Atlanta will have to stop taking drinking water from Lake Lanier within the next three years. The first meeting on the water sharing issue will be held on Thursday when the newly formed ACF stakeholders group will meet for the first time. The Stakeholders, which includes representatives from all areas of the river system reaching from Apalachicola to Atlanta hopes it can bring all of the various users of the river system together to work on solutions that all of the groups can agree to. The ACF stakeholders group includes government interests, fishermen, farmers, environmentalists, people representing power companies and even recreational interests. Over time the group also hopes to create a science based management plan that is fair to all river users ranging from the homeowners at Lake Lanier to the oystermen in the Apalachicola Bay. On December the 15th the governors of Alabama, Florida and Georgia will meet in Montgomery, Alabama to discuss the water battle and try to reach an equitable agreement for their three states.
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