ATLANTA, Oct. 15 — For the first time in more than 100 years, much of the Southeast has reached the most severe category of drought, climatologists said Monday, creating an emergency so serious that some cities are just months away from running out of water.
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“I think there’s been an ostrich-head-in-the-sand syndrome that has been growing,” said Mark Crisp, an Atlanta-based consultant with the engineering firm C. H. Guernsey. “Because we seem to have been very, very slow in our actions to deal with an impending crisis.”
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L.A. went through this* back when Gord was a pup, but water-rich states are already beginning to guard theirs with fervor. I saw Gov. Granholm on TV the other day and she made it quite plain folks better stay away from the Lakes:
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Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a fellow Democrat, had a terse response when told of Richardson’s remarks last week to a Nevada newspaper that the Great Lakes are “awash in water” and that there should be a “national water summit” to discuss water-sharing among states.
“Hell, no,” was Granholm’s reaction last week. This week, a Granholm spokeswoman said the Michigan governor was now pleased that Richardson had changed his view. Granholm and other public officials in Great Lakes states have taken steps to limit water “exports” out of the lakes and their tributaries, which contain 18 percent of the world’s fresh surface water.
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