Without last year’s extreme drought, the plan proposed by the Georgia Water Council for the state’s future water supplies would have been just another document that wouldn’t gain much attention.The first draft, written primarily by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division, or EPD, was released in September 2007. Final revisions were to be completed on Dec. 21 for the 2008 legislative session beginning in January. The document, however, contained statements labeling onsite systems as 100-percent consumptive water users, and that sewers are the preferred disposal option because they return treated wastewater directly to rivers and streams. If
