Driving across the South these days in the early morning or at dusk, it’s fairly typical to see a lot of cornfields being watered by huge irrigation sprinklers, as shown here in a field outside Leslie in the heart of central Georgia.
Water — or the increasing lack of it — has been in the news lately with a recent story in The New York Times about a huge multi-state aquifer in the heartland that’s drying up in Kansas and Texas. These kind of water woes could forecast the future in the South.
In recent years, there’s been a three-state water war pitting the metro Atlanta area of Georgia with downstream users in southwest Georgia, eastern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Learn more here through the Southern Environmental Law Center.
- Learn more about Georgia’s corn crop from this previous post.
Photo taken May 15, 2013, by Michael Kaynard of Kaynard Photography. All rights reserved.