The Water Wars that Defined the American West Are Heading East

(December 03 03:35) The Wall Street Journal

Urban growth and a surge in crop irrigation are taxing water supplies and fueling interstate legal fights, such as one in which Georgia and Florida battle over how much should be drawn from a river basin they share. Soybean fields or oyster beds?

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