Tuesday, December 22, 2009
News Perdue says interbasin transfers deserve a look
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Rural communities and lawmakers oppose them. A task force assembled of business, political and environmental leaders say they're not cost effective. Nonetheless, Gov. Sonny Perdue told a group of Augusta-area community leaders on Friday that interbasin transfers — the costly and environmentally unfriendly practice of moving water from one part of the state to another — deserve a look.
From Georgia Public Broadcasting:
"Obviously I make people nervous there because we've got this culture of this inviolate theory of no interbasin transfers," [Perdue] said. "I just want us to look at it from a Georgia perspective -- all Georgians. Some out there want to talk about Atlanta's problems. As I said, do they affect us all over Georgia? Absolutely they do."But interbasin transfers are not just an inviolate theory; they are prohibited by state law. Lawmakers, though, can change that law.
"We can't look at them (natural resources) in a selfish possessive way just like we don't try to make one area sacrifice at the expense of others" when it comes to government agencies and operations like social services, said Perdue. "Some have more than they need and others have less than they need. If we have more than we need somewhere, we may have to look at doing (the transfers). I don't think any of us -- no Georgian -- can sit back and think of an issue as fundamental as drinking water for Georgia families as someone else's problem."
(H/T to Jonathan McGinty at Beyond the Trestle, the Daily Dish of Athens, Ga.)
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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