Water woes are headed eastward

Mark Twain famously said that, in California, water flows uphill toward money. But political machinations, such as the water grab that enabled the metropolis of Los Angeles to sprout in a land of little rain, aren’t uniquely Californian.

Today the epic water rights battles fought in the arid West

In 2007, a Southeast drought provoked a fierce court battle over the waters of Lake Lanier. The combatants were Georgia, Florida and Alabama