Tour gives teachers fresh outlook on rivers

Traveling workshop focused on how resource is used different ways

Brian and Tiffany Johnston took part in a rafting trip down the Chattahoochee River with a group of teachers during the Creeks to Coast Workshop, in which they toured the river from North Georgia to the Gulf Coast to learn about water resource education, largely in the context of the “water wars.”

0801workshop1 — Brian and Tiffany Johnston took part in a rafting trip down the Chattahoochee River with a group of teachers during the Creeks to Coast Workshop, in which they toured the river from North Georgia to the Gulf Coast to learn about water resource education, largely in the context of the “water wars.”

Myers Elementary teacher Tiffany Johnston has a new perspective on the decadeslong water-sharing conflict between Georgia, Florida and Alabama, often referred to as “water wars.” She and two other Hall County teachers — her husband, Brian Johnston of Friendship Elementary and Kathy Mellette of Earhart-Edison Exploration Academy at North Hall Middle School — participated in the Georgia Aquarium-led Creeks to Coast Educators Workshop. The workshop took them along the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola portions of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system, showing them how water from the river is used.

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