A resolution in the decades-long fights over water between Georgia and Florida is probably still a long way off. Even a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in the case it’s hearing in the water wars, which the states argued Monday morning for the second time, is likely months away.
But one thing was made clear in Monday’s arguments: Florida, in its request to the court to limit Georgia’s water use, says that it is not coming after municipal water users in its case against Georgia.
That would include Atlanta.
Earlier in the case filed in 2013, Florida had criticized both metro Atlanta’s water use from the Chattahoochee River and southwest Georgia farmers’ water use from the Flint River. On Monday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked Florida’s attorney, Gregory Garre, whether that was still the case.