Courtesy of Mike Lester, Rome News-Tribune.
The water problem has apparently gotten the people of Rome, GA active. A lesson to all of us: you better find out what the hell is going on!
Comments like the following will make you think:
Joe Cook, executive director of the Coosa River Basin Initiative, said that, without restrictions, the metro area will be pumping 60 million gallons of water a day from the Etowah River in 2030 and flushing 60 percent of it down the Chattahoochee River.
“That’s a tremendous consumptive loss for the Etowah, and it is simply not acceptable,†he said, sparking cheers from the crowd.
The Water Council is still receiving comments on the State Water Plan through October 31, 2007. To send them a comment, you first have to register, but it is something you need to do.
It’s amazing that we have to reach the point of drinking dirt for everyone to start coming together to talk.