atlanta hung out to dry

Apparently Georgia has finally made a water contingency plan. According to the AP, the state "has lined up contracts with vendors to bring in bottled water and tanker trucks that could dispense water into jugs, jars and buckets." Whew. I feel better now. Not really.

Seriously--and I'm sorry to keep harping on this--but does anyone really believe that we're not, at some point, going to run out of water? Does this city even have a chance? I think not. We've grown too much, too fast, and we've gone too far to turn back. And at this point, it seems more and more likely that what we're experiencing is not actually a drought but a permanent shift to a drier climate. And if that's the case, then even if we did get rain, it would only be staving off the inevitable. We've got too many people here for our current water resources.

And I've said this before, but I don't intend to stick around for the lines to get water from a truck. I'll do my part to decrease the region's population issues and move somewhere farther north--and right on the bank of a nice, big river.