Lawyers for Alabama want a lawsuit targeting Georgia's water use in a shared river system to proceed and say negotiations have not produced a settlement.

Their request Thursday came in a report updating a federal judge on efforts to resolve a legal dispute in the watershed formed by the Alabama, Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers in Alabama and northwest Georgia.

Alabama says that while it plans to keep negotiating, it doesn't believe that the progress made in the last three months justifies further delaying a lawsuit originally filed in 1990.

Attorneys for Georgia say the judge should continue to delay the proceedings so talks can continue.

After winning a legal victory this week in a suit over another river system, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said he wanted to reach a settlement.

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