More than a decade ago, the city of Atlanta faced a significant water crisis stemming from a severe, extended drought from 2007 through 2009. It left the city on the verge of a potentially crippling crisis: just a three-day reserve of emergency raw water.
Today, the city has a 30- to 90-day supply of emergency water available, depending on what water-use restrictions are imposed. And it no longer fears the looming specter of an estimated $250 million-a-day loss in business activity for every day it’s without water, as one study had predicted.The difference-maker is an ambitious and innovative $360 million project
