By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
The Augusta Chronicle
July 25, 2010
ATLANTA --- Downstream chambers of commerce, such as those in Athens, Augusta, Savannah and Brunswick, have some unlikely allies in fighting to prevent metro Atlanta from draining their economic futures. They just haven't found one another.
Often, pro-business groups and environmental organizations engage in a sort of tug of war over the need for more regulations to protect the ecosystem and the desire for fewer regulations to spur job creation. But there's one issue on which they agree: stopping interbasin transfers.
Such transporting of water from one river basin to another can reduce the flow of water downstream, harming both the environment and the economy.
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