The Supreme Court has just two cases left that it hasn’t ruled on this term.
One of them is a fight over water between Georgia and Florida, one of the battles in the decades-long water wars between those two states and sometimes Alabama.
Over the years, it hasn’t just been a legal fight. The three states’ disagreements over water have also come up in Congress, and the governors of the states have tried to reach deals. Gov. Nathan Deal, who’s in the final months of his term, said he regrets not being able to find a resolution.
Alabama and Florida have long complained that Georgia uses too much of the water from the rivers that the states share. In the Supreme Court, Florida is asking for a cap on how much water Georgia can use from the Chattahoochee River, which supplies most of Atlanta, and from the Flint River, which supplies Georgia farms.
Deal said at one point, he thought he and his counterparts in Florida and Alabama were close to an agreement.
