Ending the Water Wars

Abstract

Toward the end of 2007, houseboats began to settle onto the dry, cracked mud at the bottom of Lake Sidney Lanier in north Georgia. As tree stumps emerged that had not been seen since the reservoir was built, it seemed as if the lake’s supply of freshwater neared depletion. But Lake Lanier is not just any reservoir. It supplies drinking water for five million people in and around Atlanta.