Questions Never Asked Part 4
posted October 23rd, 2007 in Questions Never AskedBy now, most of the country knows that Georgia is in a State of Emergency because of the drought. What not many know is that Georgia still has to send water to Florida to support mussles. Since when did mussles become more important than the survival of people?
(Update: some GA counties need to reduce water consumption by 10%)
Well, theres those good old environmental things for ya. Its just like the efforts out west to make Sage Grouse and all that endangered…all it’ll do is put a lot of people out of work.
But hey, mussels, sage grouse, eagles, whatever…its all part of the great animal kingdom that is one step higher than humans.
jk. 
Oh gosh… I thought this was like, the Florida mussel industry that was providing most of the country with the little critters. They’re not even eating them! That’s really creepy.
Ship ‘em up here, they could probably use a change in scenery. If they don’t mind occasionally being dug up for dinner. Occasionally
You guys are totally missing the point. We can’t just drastically change waterflow, or our whole ecosystem gets trashed. And our ecosystem in FL has been trashed enough by all these dawggone developers.
Folks in Georgia will get the water they need despite poorly-planned development. Meanwhile, when our water runs out down here (which won’t be too much further in the future), it’ll be all our fault - even though it was greedy out-of-staters who trashed my state.
Bill has a point—this isn’t a new crisis, it is one that has been coming on some time and is primarily our fault. Mussels are the only thing that need the water—people downstream do to. Being from Colorado, which has the headwaters to 7 rivers that water half the western United States including the Rio Grande, Arkansas and Platte; I am fully aware that we cannot simply use as much of the water we like and let the rest flow down stream. Millions of people, animals and farms are depending on that water, and we have to give it to them, our yards be darned. Georgia has the same issue, although not nearly to the same extent. I’ll admit, I have a hard time feeling sorry. Cut water usage by 10%? That isn’t going to kill anyone except a few lawns and golf courses (trust me, I know on this one too). While I don’t want to minimize the problem, I think it is only going to get worse, and we only have ourselves to blame. The same thing is happening in my hometown…..”We need to build this pipeline to accommodate the next 40 years of growth” they tell us…..and we say “and then what?”