By Kesshia Peyton Anchor/Reporter
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Published: Wed, October 24, 2007 - 5:50 pm
Last Updated: Wed, October 24, 2007 - 5:52 pm
Kesshia Peyton
Alabama gets some of its water from Lake Lanier and other areas in Georgia.
Georgia is the middle of a severe drought and in order to keep the state from running dry there are talks to limit the amount of water that is sent to Alabama and Florida.
The low water level in Georgia has reduced the water level in the Mobile River.
Because of that, salt from the Mobile Bay is flowing into the river and creating problems for MAWSS' industrial customers and diminishing Mobile River's secondary source of drinking water.
"We've been providing them {industrial customers} treated water from Big Creek Lake in place of Mobile River water," said MAWSS Public Affairs Manager Barbara Shaw.
MAWSS will join the Water Works and Sanitary Sewer Board of the City Montgomery, Alabama Power and several community groups in the lawsuit against the Corp of Engineers, which wants to reduce the amount of water flowing downstream.
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Yep, and every employ I see driving around does so in a nice new truck or something. What’s that all about? We drink sludge water and they drive around in a new truck drinking bottled water. What gives?