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	<description>Providing an informed look at water-related topics in the news. A project of Georgia River Network -- www.garivers.org. (Above: Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Photo by Tom Wilson.)</description>
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		<title>“Georgia Owns the Chattahoochee”</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/georgia-owns-the-chattahoochee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a moment when Georgia is attempting to wrap-up negotiations with Alabama and Florida to bring an end to the decades-old tri-state water wars, such a statement comes across as inflammatory and inappropriate.  Pat Stevens, of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), passed this judgment at a recent meeting on Lake Lanier’s shoreline before the South [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=677&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Effective Approach To Georgia’s Water Problems?</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/the-most-effective-approach-to-georgias-water-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the New Year kicks-off, it’s worth putting a critical new policy program – the Governor’s Water Supply Program – under the spotlight.  The state intends to distribute $300 million over the next four years for new water ventures.  Full implementation however, will take decades given the nature of eligible projects.  And the environmental and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=665&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ogeechee Update: Local officials want independent inspection of King America factory discharges</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/ogeechee-update-local-officials-want-independent-inspection-of-king-america-factory-discharges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday night, state legislators, EPD reps, and concerned citizens met in Pooler to discuss the settlement the state reached with King America Finishing. At the meeting, five local state legislators called for independent inspection of King America&#8217;s factory discharges into the river, saying: “I think we’ve all lost confidence in the system,” and “We have to overcome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=653&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slap on the wrist, slap in the face</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/slap-on-the-wrist-slap-in-the-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The settlement the Georgia Environmental Protection Division reached with King America Finishing was nothing more than a slap on the wrist for what is arguably one the worst environmental failures in the state history. And that translates into a slap in the face for the people who live in the Ogeechee River watershed. Streeter cartoon: Pipe Protest &#124; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=623&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Drought Redux: Reading Between the Lines of the News</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/georgia-drought-redux-reading-between-the-lines-of-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As another Georgia summer turns to fall, low river flows and dropping reservoir levels have called to mind the late summer of 2007, when the state found itself entering a catastrophic drought. Tropical Storm Lee brought a welcome change in the weather at the time, as the AJC reported after the storm had passed, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=615&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“We bought something and we can’t pay for it”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those were the words of Canton City Councilman Bill Bryant, as quoted in Jeffry Scott’s recent AJC article.  He was not talking about Social Security, Medicare, or the Pentagon’s latest weapon system.  Bryant was talking about the ten-year old, incomplete, six billion gallon, and $100 million Hickory Log Creek Reservoir.  Canton’s leadership is desperately trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=609&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Water Read: 11th Circuit Court Appeal</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/deep-water-read-11th-circuit-court-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s June 2011 finding simply concludes: the Corps misinterpreted their own authority to manage Lake Lanier and now has one year to reconsider Georgia’s past requests to draw additional water directly from the artificial reservoir.  Georgia’s successful appeal of Senior U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson’s 2009 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=599&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“A small universe of people”</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/%e2%80%9ca-small-universe-of-people%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s how William Thomas “Tommy” Craig described his water supply and reservoir consulting outfit in a June 2011 AJC article.  Craig’s universe has also called upon former Georgia public servants Joe Tanner (the former Department of Natural Resources commissioner) and Harold Reheis (the former Environmental Protection Division head).  Combined, this universe has collected upwards of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=594&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Issue Brief: Glades Reservoir &amp; A New Standard</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/issue-brief-glades-reservoir-a-new-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hall County’s Glades Farm Reservoir project has hit some interesting speed-bumps in the past few weeks according to the Gainesville Times’ Ashley Fielding.  Over the course of five years, the project increased in scale and scope, embroiled county and city officials in a local water war, and became a favorite project of the state’s leadership.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=589&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magnuson Overturned: What Next?</title>
		<link>http://gawaterwire.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/magnuson-overturned-what-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the dust has settled on last month’s federal appeals court ruling in the tri-state water war, it’s time to look toward what happens next (and what doesn&#8217;t). Clearly, the tri-state negotiations go on. While the recent ruling from a three-judge panel did shift the playing field by overturning the two-year-old Magnuson ruling on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gawaterwire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9705315&amp;post=581&amp;subd=gawaterwire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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