| Abstract: |
Tensions over water are emerging in Eastern states along rivers like Savannah, Pee Dee, Roanoke, Chattahoochee and Potomac; are in large part product of scares in 1999 and summer 2002, when many rivers fell near critical lows from drought and rapid development and reflect growing worries in region that water is not as bountiful as it once seemed; Eastern states are wrangling over question of whose water it is; compared with West, where rivers were long ago apportioned drop by drop, most of East has been empty page regarding how much water state can draw from river. |
