Water Resources Management Response Paper

Some major rivers in Georgia include the Chattahoochee River, the Savannah River, and the Suwannee River. A few land features around Georgia are the Atlantic coastal plains which stretch from Massachusetts to the Florida Peninsula, then around the Gulf of Mexico, the Piedmont, which has a hilly landscape in the north, but if you travel southeast, the hills begin rolling near 400 feet below sea level, and the Blue Ridge Mountains that “Rise at 2,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level,” according to “The Geography of Georgia.”

Thesis: Georgia should be able to continue their withdrawals from Lake Lanier and the water basins because of their water supply needs for irrigating its crops in the south, flood control, and sustaining its rapidly growing population in the metro Atlanta area.

due to Georgia’s unwillingness to agree to any real restrictions on water use by metro Atlanta. This paper will outline why new

Comprising over seventy percent of the Earth's surface, water is undeniably the most valuable natural resource. Life on Earth would be non-existent without water because it is essential for everything on our planet to grow. The human body is composed of 50-80% water. Blood and muscles contain significant amounts, and approximately 95% of the brain is water. All body systems and organs need water to function properly, and will shut down without it. Most of the chemical reactions that take place in our body need water as their medium. We can live without food for a few weeks, but can survive only a few days without water. It's essential because unlike other nutrients, water isn't stored in the body. Typically, everyday, we lose around 10

The coastal plain region is the largest region in Georgia. It is located in the southern half of the state. It has incredibly fertile and sandy soil, because of the anchient ocean that once covered the entirity of the Coastal Plain. It is home to the Okefenokee Swamp, which is the largest backwater swamp in North America, as well as a home to the vast diversity of wild and plant life. The flat land and the fertile soil, as well as Georgia’s temperate climate allows the agriculture to

Water governance in this case is not limited to even the state of Georgia’s government to handle despite most of the system traveling through Georgia. Controversy arises

Imagine life without water, what affects do you think will come? Water is not only an important source of nature but a  necessity to living life through human society. Our group believe in the importance of water and realize that without Central Arkansas Water the future for our area would lack in a necessity in daily living. We wanted to know more about the complications CAW experiences, the current improvements to the system, and the future plans that will lead Central Arkansas to a new level of water enterprise. In the water sector of Infrastructure there are many important sub-sector to the transportation of water, but water treatment is the most important in our Central Arkansas area.

The local issue as described in the first Milestone submission is water quality. Independence is a rural area in southeast Kansas. With a population of 9,453 residents being reported in last year’s census reports of the town of Independence, you can imagine that it is a relatively small community when compared to even your hometown. This population total is significantly lower this year with the closing of the local hospital in December of last year, with a community lacking the basic necessity of an emergency room and medical testing facility, many residents have decided to make a change and move to a more stable area. With the closing of the hospital the city of Independence has decided to spend $3.5 million to renovate the vacant facility into a new city offices location, in an attempt to modernize the township and combine all of the city’s services into a central location. This decision was made by our local representatives because they felt this was the best way to spend the tax payer’s money, the irony of the situation is that the hospital needed $3.5 million to renovate the facility for themselves in order to pass the states medical inspection and remain open to the public.

Saltwater intrusion leading to contaminated drinking water wells has long been feared in South Florida. Saltwater intrusion occurs naturally to some degree in most coastal aquifers, owing to the hydraulic connection between groundwater and seawater. Because saltwater has a higher mineral content than freshwater, it is denser and has a higher water pressure. There are three primary mechanisms by which saltwater contaminates the freshwater reservoir in the unconfined, surficial aquifers of the region: one, subsurface movement of seawater (lateral large-scale intrusion), two, seepage of seawater from tidal canals and streams, and three, upward movement of connate saltwater (water remaining from the

The St. Johns River Water Management District, Suwannee River Water Management District and Southwest Florida Water Management District have been jointly developing a large regional groundwater model that will help shape the future of water supply in north Florida. The model, called the North Florida—Southeast Georgia (NFSEG) Model, covers a significant portion of north Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

In the scholarly article “Offshore Aquifers” by Renee Martin-Nagle, she discusses the discovery of fresh water sources being found in the ocean. Nagle talks about the water shortage not only are an issue for California, but also the entire world. She talks about how there are two different types of aquifers, recharging and non-recharging aquifers. Recharging aquifers are aquifers are linked with the surface and receive its water reserves from rainwater, streams, rivers, and runoff. They are commonly found close to the surface. They are more susceptible to over-use and pollution. Non-recharging aquifers are usually found deep beneath the surface, and porous rocks, buried beneath a solid layer of sedimentary limestone or dolomite rock. The water found in the non-recharging aquifers arrives there because it gets trapped there when tectonic plates shift, and sea levels where much lower 20,000 years ago when the Siberian land bridge allowed humans to travel from Asia to the Americas.

Georgia, Florida, & Alabama have been battling for decades over the future distribution of the water from the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa & Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins, all of which cross the states' borders. The argument has thus far involved many local, state, & federal agencies, plus numerous courts & mediators. The outcome of this dispute is one of the region's most important environmental issues today. Georgia wants to be assured enough water to grow, especially in Atlanta, as well as having water to supply other cities & agricultural use. However, Atlanta, not being in a water-rich part of the state & sprawling on top of countless river systems draining into the Atlantic & the Gulf of Mexico, creates a problem. Alabama

Manzoor, K. P. (2011). The global water crisis: Issues and solutions. IUP Journal of Infrastructure, 9(2), 34-43.

An aquifer is defined as underground layers of rock saturated with water that can be brought to the surface through natural springs or by pumping. Named after Biscayne Bay, the Biscayne aquifer is a coastal, unconfined aquifer because its top portion is the water table and it merges with the floor of Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Underlies an area of approximately 4000 square miles, the Biscayne aquifer‘s maps out from the southern tip of the state northwest along a wavy line to south Palm Beach County. The cross-section of the aquifer resembles a wedge and its gets deeper as it gets closer to the eastern coast. The Biscayne aquifer is the primary source of freshwater to most of South Florida (Dade, Broward and part of Palm Beach counties). Furthermore, water from the aquifer is pumped through pipeline to the

People are being put through immense pain everyday just to get to water. They walk for hours and hours giving up their lives for the sake of water. They carry five gallons for hours so they can provide water for 4 people, a lot of times its more than 4. They walk thorny bushes with no shoes while carrying 41 pounds on their back. They don't have an education because all their time goes to getting water so they cant do anything to stop the cycle. They don't have an education so they can afford to live in a nicer place that actually has water. They cant get an education because then they wont be able to get water. The water they drink from the river is also polluted with harsh chemicals. Thankfully their is organizations to help with this cause. They include water for people, h2o for life, and water.org.