The Florida-Georgia water wars have moved to another level with the filing of a new lawsuit.
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that a lawsuit had been filed against Georgia aimed at stopping its growing consumption of water, harmful to families in Northwest Florida.
“Georgia has refused to fairly share the waters that flow between our two states, so to stop Georgia’s unmitigated consumption of water we have brought the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Scott in a statement. “Georgia’s over-consumption of water threatens the existence of Apalachicola Bay and the future economic development of the region.”
Scott added that, “Generations of Florida families have relied upon these waters for their livelihood, but now risk losing their way of life if Georgia’s actions are not stopped.”
Through legal challenges over the past 20 years, Florida has unsuccessfully sought relief from the damage caused by reduced flows and increased Georgia consumption in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basins.
