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To: KonKilo who wrote (70120)	6/1/2008 10:37:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541936

Georgia's (especially Atlanta's) water supply has become such a concern that GA's political leaders are now saying that TN's southern/GA's northern border was drawn incorrectly a couple of centuries ago, and should indeed be a mile further north. Yes, I've heard about that. And a town--I think in TN, or perhaps TN--that has already run out of water, and now trucks it in. Their mayor was quoted last fall when Atlanta was worried about running out of water as saying, we're small enough to truck enough water in for now, but what are they going to do in Atlanta? That is just one of the water wars that are beginning to brew in this country. And there are plenty more brewing in Asia and Africa. Bob just said that those who believe that climate change may well lead to a catastrophe in the not too distant future are "hysterical," believe it to be so because we are fed by the [ignorant] media. This is nonsense. I've read plenty of papers from peer reviewed journals and books published by respected presses. Oh, right, they are all in on the game, they just publish this stuff to get grants and make money, lol. This line of "argument" is really quite amazing. Personally, I think we're somewhere near the end of the beginning of bad things happening. Water in different ways will be at the center of many of our problems--drought, flooding, aquifers overdrawn and not sufficiently recharged or contaminated by salt water, extreme events like intense hurricanes, more frequent and intenst wildfires, diseases formerly restricted to tropical areas moving north, coastal areas submerged by rising oceans (even hysterical Charlie Crisp is worried by this for large swathes of southern FL), rivers running dry (after a period of causing flooding as the glaciers melt)--I'm sure I'm missing something, but that's enough for now.