Atlanta may have to drink the dregs

[kurth]

Atlanta may have to drink the dregs
By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Nov 16, 5:04 PM ET

ATLANTA - With drought tightening its grip on the Southeast, the Atlanta area's reservoirs are almost down to the dregs — the dirtier, more bacteria-laden water close to the bottom — and it's going to require more aggressive and more expensive purification.

Some communities are buying stronger water-treatment chemicals and looking into other measures to make the water drinkable.

The problem is that the water levels on Lakes Lanier and Allatoona, the main sources of water for metropolitan Atlanta's 5 million residents, have descended almost to the "dead zone," a layer low in oxygen and high in organic material — that is, dead and decaying plants and animals.

Even with standard treatment, the water at that level can have a strong odor, taste and color. State officials consider the water "suspect" at best...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_re_us/drought_dregs;_ylt=AiBGcdb_Q3nCd4a_K.q_DRZH2ocA

[nightrider767]

1. Can't prove it ,but I have a theory...

" the water at that level can have a strong odor, foul taste and rancid color and dead animals floating around it with gun-shot wounds the to head. Even small birds, like the humming bird. Who would shoot a humming bird in the head? "

I'm suspicious.

I think this seems more like the work of Dick Chaney than the drought.

It's got his name written all over it.


:rofl:

[cboy4]

2. I guess the governor better pray harder next time.

This is priceless.

"Local media received calls and mail from residents who felt the prayer ceremony violated the principle of separation of church and state, and insisted the governor should focus on better planning rather than hope for divine intervention.

"God is not an ATM machine you can go to and get whatever you need whenever you ask for it," :spray: one reader wrote on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's blog.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ix_yrYOJ6Ivl_xE3_vF1GmWpr0gw

[DeSwiss]

3. Which is what this whole "prayer act" was intended to obscure....

...and it seems to have worked for the most part. Because it stopped people talking (at least for the past few days) about the piss-poor development planning. This isn't the first time Atlanta's run short of water. I remember back in the mid-80s the same problem happening and they wanted to hijack water from the Tennessee River back then too. But in much of the South, developers are the tail that wags the dog. And to keep the illusion afloat of a lower cost of living (its only lower in the short-run), infrastructure and development planning is the sacrificial lamb that's the first to go.

So they've had quite a while to address this, but the southern Repuke pols have been sleeping with the ReligiousWingNuts who don't give a fig about such matters. They just want to make sure that the "right persons" are sleeping together in the "right beds." Most are buffoons anyway. Pretty much the same thing played out on a national level with Bush. They got stem cell research vetoed and everyone else got disaster after disaster. War, floods, falling bridges and wild fires out-of-control. All of which were fumbled and bungled by the feds. State Repukes are no better at running government.

So Hotlanta got a few sprinkles, but they'll soon be right back where they started. Only now they can put it all on God's shoulders. They can say that its just "God moving in one of his mysterious ways" again. "We've prayed. We've done all we can do." Which is about the truth. Government operated by wishes and prayers to Yahweh the Storm God.

- Asshats. The whole lot of them....