Bama's Water Wars

Alabama's Congressional delegation is standing up for the state in its water war with Georgia. The latest news is that Senators Shelby and Sessions have placed a hold President Bush's nomination of John Paul Woodley Jr. to be the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, the civilian post that oversees the Army Corps of Engineers.

The action by Alabama's members of Congress comes on the heels of a meeting with Gov. Riley last week. Alabama officials accuse the Army Corps of Engineers of playing favorites in the dispute over access to water resources in the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin.

An earlier, witty and pithy post is here. Ha!

"Whisky is for drinking and water is for fighting over." - Mark Twain