2008-06-21 Atlanta: Finishing What General Sherman Started

2008-06-21 \Atlanta\conservation vs. conservatism\US conservatism\water\Rick Perlstein/writings http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/atlanta-finishing-what-general-sherman-started Atlanta: Finishing What General Sherman Started &ldquo;"In 1969, a study by the Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning Commission...determined that significant infrastructure changes would be required to avoid critical water shortages when the metro area's population soared to between 3 million (reached in 1993) an 5 million (2006). In the 1980s, water planners mapped out a proposed network of reservoirs throughout North Georgia to shore up water for inevitable droughts. Yet the reservoirs never got off paper. By the nineties, the projects were not only deemed to costly to pursue once rainfall returned in abundance, but they also threatened to further antagonize Alabama and Florida in the tri-state water dispute." What did the Atlanta metropolitan area do instead? Issue building permitsâ€”48,262 in 1996; 68,240 in 2006. That's the free-market way. The conservative way.&rdquo;   