In water wars, Florida moves target from Lake Lanier users to southwest Georgia farmers - Gainesville Times

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In water wars, Florida moves target from Lake Lanier users to southwest Georgia farmers

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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Florida hammered Georgia in a federal courtroom in New Mexico Thursday for not doing enough to limit agricultural water use in southwest Georgia as the oyster industry downstream in Apalachicola Bay collapsed.