The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will let stand a lower court ruling that guarantees, for the time being, a sustained flow of water to Florida's Apalachicola River but unravels Georgia's long-term water plans for the Atlanta region. ...more

January 13, 2009

Florida officials are threatening to sue the federal government unless the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reconsiders its plan to withhold more water from federal reservoirs and lakes in Georgia. ...more

June 21, 2008

Florida lawmakers want the federal government to hold off on a new drought plan allowing operators of federal dams in Georgia to withhold more water for metropolitan Atlanta at the expense of downstream areas. ...more

June 6, 2008

A federal plan to reduce water flows in the Apalachicola River won't irreversibly doom four federally protected species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. ...more

June 3, 2008

Longtime oysterman Keith Millender sees every shower taken or car washed in metropolitan Atlanta as a small threat to his family, which has harvested seafood from northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay for generations. ...more

May 26, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley agreed on Monday to work together on a new "drought emergency plan" for the three states to take effect as soon as mid-March. ...more

December 18, 2007

The Bush administration began reducing the water flow from Georgia into the Apalachicola River on Friday, despite a new federal analysis confirming Florida's claims that some federally protected mussels and Gulf sturgeon would be killed. ...more

November 17, 2007

WASHINGTON - Reducing the water flow into Florida's Apalachicola River and other areas as a way to keep drought-stricken Atlanta's water supply from slipping lower likely will kill some mussels and Gulf sturgeon, a new report says. But the "biological opinion" announced this morning by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service concludes the U.S. Corps of Engineers' water-flow reduction plan will not jeopardize the existence of federally protected mussels as a species or Gulf sturgeon. ...more

November 16, 2007

Just nine days ago, Florida, Georgia and Alabama seemed on the verge of resolving a 17-year-old battle over each state's share of water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint rivers system. ...more

November 10, 2007

Georgia has no one but itself to blame for its water crisis and Gov. Sonny Perdue's efforts to cut water flow to Florida and Alabama should be summarily rejected by federal regulators. ...more

October 27, 2007