ATLANTA – The Georgia Water Coalition to release the Dirty Dozen report for 2024 highlighting issues threating the health of Georgia’s water.
Release:
The Georgia Water Coalition’s Dirty Dozen report for 2024 will be released via video press conference Thursday, May 9, at 10 a.m.
The 13th Dirty Dozen report highlights 12 of the worst offenses to Georgia’s water and serves as a call to action to solve these problems. Each of the issues in the report will be highlighted during the conference and representatives with Georgia Water Coalition member organizations will be available to answer your questions.
The Dirty Dozen report is not a list of the state’s most polluted water bodies. Instead, the report highlights the politics, policies and issues that threaten the health of Georgia’s water and the well being of 11 million Georgians.
Proudly, Georgia touts itself as the No. 1 state to do business, but that success in economic development is not without its consequences. When we fail to plan for growth; when we don’t enforce existing laws to protect our water resources; and when we provide anemic funding for the state agency charged with protecting the state’s natural resources, economic development inevitably impacts those resources upon which we all depend.
The list includes multiple issues with statewide impacts as well as those impacting the Flint, Savannah, Ogeechee, Conasauga, Coosa and Altamaha rivers as well as the Okefenokee Swamp and the Floridan Aquifer, the water source for most of South Georgia.
You may join via Zoom at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9749672913?omn=88283993563
