WGKA Special Broadcast – Solving Georgia’s Water Crisis – TODAY at 4PM on 920am WGKA
Did you miss the 7-member panel Q&A townhall forum Wednesday night in Alpharetta? Listen TODAY from 4p-6p for a special re-broadcast on 920am WGKA about the scope of the current drought situation in Georgia, what is being done by public officials and private business and what can be done from here on.
I will be in-studio with Fulton County Commissioner Lynne Riley and The Weather Channel Expert Greg Forbes taking phone calls in the last hour of the broadcast at 770-226-0920 or outside the Atlanta area at 1-888-920-2665. Feel free to call and give your perspective on Georgia’s worst recorded drought and take advantage of Dr. Forbes and Commissioner Riley’s expertise.
With all these wells being drilled shouldn’t we also be concerned with possibly lowering the water table? And which wells are clean which could be used for drinking? And should the clean water be used for landscaping? Same ideas statewide. Wells for irrigation can lead to killing the soil with mineral salts. Also I’m pretty “Libertarian” when it comes to home ownership, but it’s disturbing to see homes being built on good bottom land, wetlands, flood plains ect… which could be used for farming. And why do homeowners keep getting rewarded for building in these flood prone areas?
http://www.uswaternews.com/homepage.html
WASHINGTON — If the Georgia-Alabama-Florida water wars were a poker match, Georgia’s high card might be an agreement it secured in 2003 for rights to about a quarter of the water in Lake Lanier, a huge federal reservoir outside Atlanta.
http://tinyurl.com/3bxdwq
Keep the questions coming. I will pull questions from the responses posted here for this afternoon’s forum
I think I’ve got a fix for your water problems. Very, very simple.
If it’s brown, flush it down.
If it’s yellow, let it mellow.
Problem solved.
What about my “Leave it to Beaver” theory? Unleash 10,000 beavers into the state and let them “capture” the water and alluvial soil ect…) with dams?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial