Ridiculous proposals such as moving the borders to snare another state’s water aren’t the solution. The solution is to manage growth so that the available resources can sustain the area’s population.

This will become even more important as resources such as oil, water, farmland and topsoil, and even clean air become increasingly scarce.

Water shortages are just a preview. When the oil starts running out, America will have to rethink our entire economy, our transportation systems, our farming and food distribution systems, and lots more. And it will be a worldwide problem. Imagine the Georgia v. Tennesse border dispute on a global scale, with billions of people in developing nations such as China competing with the rest of the world for natural resources.

Sadly, past generations including mine have ignored the problems, leaving it for your generation to solve. I am optimistic, though, that your generation will be smart enough, out of awareness if not necessity, to figure it out.

Ridiculous proposals such as moving the borders to snare another state’s water aren’t the solution. The solution is to manage growth so that the available resources can sustain the area’s population.

This will become even more important as resources such as oil, water, farmland and topsoil, and even clean air become increasingly scarce.

Water shortages are just a preview. When the oil starts running out, America will have to rethink our entire economy, our transportation systems, our farming and food distribution systems, our communities and neighborhoods and lots more. And it will be a worldwide problem. Imagine the Georgia v. Tennessee border dispute on a global scale, with billions of people in developing nations such as China competing with the rest of the world for natural resources.

Sadly, past generations including mine have ignored the problems, leaving it for your generation to solve. I am optimistic, though, that your generation will be smart enough, out of awareness if not necessity, to figure it out.

As someone who used to live in Southern California, I’m perfectly aware of just how far some states have to pipe water from an adjacent source. Southern California pipes a good amount from Lake Havasu in Arizona. Georgia borders the Atlantic Ocean, for goodness sake! Just remove the salt!

(Oh…and another problem is the rate structure used by many water utility companies. Often, the rate per gallon is actually LOWER the more gallons a customer uses! How does that motivate customers to conserve?!)

The bottom line is that Georgia no longer has any claim to land between the intended border and the current border. Tennessee has occupied the land continuously for the past 200 years.

Georgia is behaving badly, if they win in court Georgia will create a negative backlash and they will suffer. Have you heard of the Hatfield’s and the McCoys? I hope Georgia can use that famous “American Ingenuity” to find creative solutions to their problems, they don’t need to steal from their neighbors.

Don’t be fooled, we have enough water. The people of GA don’t need to make a run to grab the Tennessee River, we need to make a run to the state house and whip up on the legislators who continue to allow us to be in this situation in the first place.

Kari said it, “water is money”. We just overspend our water as much as we overspend our money.