“‘Resource wars’ are things that happen elsewhere. We don’t usually think of our country as water poor or imagine that ‘resource wars’ might be applied as a description to various state and local governments in the Southwest, Southeast or upper Midwest now fighting tooth and nail for previously shared water. And yet, ‘war’ may not be a bad metaphor for what’s on the horizon. According to the National Climate Data Center, federal officials have declared 43 percent of the contiguous U.S. to be in ‘moderate to extreme drought.’ Already, Sonny Perdue of Georgia is embroiled in an ever more bitter conflict with the governors of Florida and Alabama, as well as the Army Corps of Engineers, over the flow of water into and out of the Atlanta area.” [editor’s note: And the odds-on bet is that, even though “public utilities” have all been effectively either socialized or routed into sweetheart monopolies courtesy of government for nearly a century now, “capitalism” will be the favored scapegoat - TLK] (11/19/07)