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The term water war is colloquially used in media for some disputes over water, and often is more limited to describing a conflict between countries, states, or groups over the rights to access water resources. [2] [3] The United Nations recognizes that water disputes result from opposing interests of water users, public or private. [4]
Chattahoochee River in Norcross, Georgia, downstream from Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The tri-state water dispute is a 21st-century water-use conflict among the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over flows in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.
The California water wars were among the subjects discussed in Cadillac Desert, a 1984 nonfiction book by Marc Reisner about land development and water policy in the western United States. The book was made into a four-part documentary of the same name in 1997.
The decision means Georgia has scored another victory in the decades-long tri-state water wars with Alabama and Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court handed Georgia a win in April, when it ruled in ...
The Tennessee–Georgia water dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between the U.S. States of Tennessee and Georgia about whether or not the border between the two states should have been located farther north, allowing a small portion of the Tennessee River to be located in Georgia.
An aerial view of the California Aqueduct, which moves water from northern California to the state's drier south, on May 3, 2022 near Palmdale, California. ... The ‘Water Wars’ of today.
Bulloch County residents say local leaders were bullied into a deal to provide up to 6.6 million gallons of water per day for Hyundai's Georgia site. Hyundai wells fuel water war between Bulloch ...
Arizona v. California is a set of United States Supreme Court cases, all dealing with disputes over water distribution from the Colorado River between the states of Arizona and California. It also covers the amount of water that the State of Nevada receives from the river as well.