Well, the chickens come home to roost in the Atlanta drought. If businesses had understood all along that overdevelopment isn’t sustainable in the long run (and if they hadn’t supported short-sighted public policies), things might be different:
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Urinals without water. Fountains without water. A waterfall without water.
Dry is the goal as United Parcel Service Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and other companies in the Atlanta area rally to cut water use in response to the region’s most extreme drought since at least the 1920s. Metropolitan Atlanta, which has added more new residents than any other U.S. city since 2000, may face limits on growth if the shortage persists, business officials said.
“We are very galvanized around this issue,” said John Somerhalder II, chief executive officer of AGL Resources Inc., which provides natural gas in Atlanta, and vice chairman of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce’s environmental committee. “It is the No. 1 topic that businesses are concerned about.”
my friends’ kid just started college down there (don’t ask me why) and they were there last week. said all the restaurants still put glasses of water on the table unasked for. sheesh.
i find this article terrifying, but evidently they are in dreamland, really not taking adequate measures when there is soooo little water left.