How long untill we run out of water? for Ga area?

Question

Lake lanier to be more specific. and does anybody know about the "muscle crisis" and when we will stop letting so much water out of the dam?

Answer 1

State officials warn that Lake Lanier, a 38,000-acre north Georgia reservoir that supplies more than 3 million residents with water, is already less than three months from depletion. Smaller reservoirs are dropping even lower, forcing local governments to consider rationing.

Georgia believes they can wrestle additional water from AL, FL, TN and SC but these states are suffering just as bad. (I know Alabama is). There is no real emergency plan for a drought. I think they are hoping for "40 days and 40 nights" of rain.

I think it is a real possibility that rationing will occur. Who knows after that. It will take a decade to replenish Georgia's water supply. BTW, it will take almost as long to build reservoirs.

Maybe Georgia can be the recipient of several tropical storms and even hurricanes.

Answer 2

The news media is painting a bad picture of 3 months. However, I seriously doubt the problem is we will run out of water as so much that the water we use will be from the bottom of the lake and much dirtier. The flowing water at the top tends to be a lot cleaner than the water at the bottom with the settled pollution.

The muscles in Florida can survive on less water and exist in other locations. The agreement to let so much water flow downstream was created in the seventies when not as many people existed in Atlanta. Our population has grown from about 2 million in the seventies to 5 million today (metro region). That is a lot of extra water to take.

If the crisis were more critical, we would be financing and building more reservoirs for when rain does come. Also, just south of us, Macon has plenty of water. We could tap into that resource if we were truly about to run short.

For now, the water crisis is more of a political issue than a practical issue.

This is just my opinion and not fact, obviously.

Answer 3

The Georgia area has about 60 days worth of water left, but of course, it could rain enough before that time to avoid the problem all together.

Water shortages are a real problem world-wide, although many people do not acknowledge this fact.