Governor Sonny Perdue, in his annual environmental address today, says Georgia should continue its water conservation efforts learned from the drought.

"I think it's time to think about potentially, some state-types of strong suggestions for conservation efforts in our local communities, and I'd love to think about it in an incentive fashion... rather than a stick."

A federal judge has ruled Atlanta has only three more years of water rights to Lake Lanier.

Yesterday Perdue announced a water contingency task force to come up with a plan if Georgia's legal and diplomatic efforts to keep its water rights to the reservoir aren't successful.

A spokesperson for the governor says this group will iron out the details of those incentives to bring them before the state legislature next session.

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