Governor Perdue listens to residents during a recent water town hall meeting in Columbus. (photo by Nathan Amstutz)
"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.
