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After years of battling between Florida and Georgia ... case about divvying up water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system, which stretches from northern Georgia to Apalachicola ...

Lancaster found that Florida had suffered harm from the decreased water flow in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin but had not proven that limiting the amount of water Georgia ...

After 80 years of the river’s beginnings in metro ... the quality of life to all residents.” The Flint, which runs all the way to the Florida border, was an integral part of the southside ...

Metro Atlanta — where the Flint River begins just south of the city — and Southwest Georgia farmers were at the center of Florida's failed lawsuit, which accused Georgia of allowing ...

Kelly Jr. on Thursday recommended the Supreme Court deny Florida’s request to control Georgia’s use of water from the Flint and Chattahoochee river system that flows between the two states.

A group of regional doctors urged Flint to stop using its river’s water because it was ... fact that our elected and appointed officials in Florida are more competent than those in Flint.

Back then, the state also halted new withdrawals from some Flint River tributaries ... also devastated oysters in Apalachicola Bay, and Florida sued Georgia in 2013, arguing the state’s overuse ...

ATLANTA — Jason Cox, who grows peanuts and cotton in southwest Georgia, says farming would be economically impossible without water to irrigate his crops. “I'd be out of business,” said Cox ...