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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam refuses to give water to Georgia

522 views · Published 27 March 2013 · 1:04 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics

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First of all, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is refusing to give Georgia access to the tennessee river in a water war that has grown very serious very quickly.
Georgia lawmakers are threatening to march into the U.S. Supreme Court.
But Haslam says Georgia's effort to move the state border and pump a billion gallons of water a day to Atlanta are simply fighting words.
TVA has so far stayed quiet on the issue, but now TVA's new CEO says that since TVA has authority over the river, it can no longer stay out of the picture.
Georgia lawmakers argue that a 200-year-old land survey misplaced the state line, and if Tennessee's border stretched along the 35th parallel, as Congress decreed, Atlanta could take water from the river.
Atlanta is one of the few cities on the continent that was not built on a river or water source that could sustain it and yet the city keeps growing.
Atlanta residents use 151 gallons of water a day. Chattanoogans, on average, use just 95 gallons.

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