Eased water restrictions?

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Governor Purdue Announces Easing of Water Restrictions for Metro Atlanta


ALPHARETTA, GA--(Marketwire - February 7, 2008) - Advanced Nurseries, Inc., a subsidiary of Advanced Growing Systems, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AGWS) announces that Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue has taken critical steps in reducing the negative impact from current watering restrictions. Since September 2007, when the restrictions were implemented, the Green Industry has suffered losses of over $262 million per month that can be directly attributed to the drought and the ensuing regulations.

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Strickland added, "This is a true relief for the industry, but not a long term fix. With population growth and current practices, it will be the companies that understand sustainable landscapes and how to achieve them that will lead the way."

According to the new restrictions, newly installed professional landscaping can be watered up to three days a week from midnight to 10 am for a period of 10 weeks on the odd/even schedule. The new schedule will ensure the survival of the new landscape without requiring more water than what is being used under the 30-day exemption. Hand watering will be allowed for 25 minutes per day on an odd/even schedule between midnight and 10 am.

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=818587

I guess some easing was in order; however, one day our luck will run out and the rain won't come. Then we'll be forced to evacuate the area. We need a year round strategy for conserving water. Sonny is doing a horrible job with regard to looking forward.

[Debau2005]

1. But we do have a new strategy...

We are just going to steal a bit of Tennessee, certainly they won't mind!
"Water war between the states is for real
Tennessee defiant as Georgia tries to move state line to tap into river."

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/02/07/tenn_0208.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab


Maybe while the are busy cleaning up from the tornadoes they won't be paying attention, and we'll just sneak the border up a bit....
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[Phentex]

2. I think it's a bad idea...

whenever we've had anything but a full restriction, people cheat. Odd, even or Saturday only....people water and claim ignorance. With a full restriction, there is no guesswork.

I'm okay with swimming pools being allowed, although I would have been okay had they not, but I see trouble with allowing people to water on the odd/even schedule. We haven't made up much of the deficit yet. I understand the impact to the industry, but what happens to *everything* when the water runs out?

[bunkerbuster1]

3. He is such a wimp.

Purdue has surely had some heart-to-heart chats with folks who know that there is no way to provide a reliable water supply for the activities Georgians want without making some fundamental changes in both supply AND demand.

Obviously, the state needs to look into some additional resources, whether it's renewable (i.e. reprocessing water, as icky as that sounds to some) or finding some back-door way to dam up another river, somewhere, and pipe the reservoir collections to the metro area.

Obviously, the state needs to impose, YESTERDAY, both roof-top collection mandates on new construction and gray-water recovery systems for any new home being built with a septic system. This is no-brainer stuff.

Neither appears to be happening. Because, as previously stated, our Governor is a wimp.