Wilton Rooks, with the 1071 Coalition and the Lake Lanier Association, said he also belongs to ACF Stakeholders, set to hold a major organization meeting December 10th in Albany to begin an end to the 20-year-old tri-state water war.
Rooks, from Forsyth County, said the political and legal system has failed; the group feels the stakeholders up and down the Apalachicola, Flint and Chattahoochee rivers want their turn at settling the water disputes.
Rooks told club members ACF Stakeholders includes environmentalists, industry and recreation leaders, farmers and local government officials who want a new approach to sharing the river basin's water from Lake Lanier to the Gulf of Mexico.
Rooks said that new approach would focus on conservation and efficient water use; that could mean more effectively putting the water back.
"It doesn't matter how much water you take out of the ACF Basin, its how much water to put back that counts," Rooks said. "If you can put back as close to all that you take out as possible, then everybody will benefit by sharing that water as it moves down the basin."
Rooks said the political and legal system has failed; the group feels the stakeholders up and down the Apalachicola, Flint and Chattahoochee rivers want their turn at settling the water disputes
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