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31. Gary Chamberlain, Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), 40.[back]

32. Naser I. Faruqui and others, eds., Water Management in Islam (j.a.pan: United Nations University Press, 2001), 1.[back]

33. Ibid.; and Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 94.[back]

34. Rajendra Pradhan and Ruth Meinzen-d.i.c.k, aWhich Rights Are Right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values,a in Water Ethics, eds. Brown and Schmidt, 48.[back]

35. Sidney Lanier, aSong of the Chattahoochee,a in Yale Book of American Verse, ed. Thomas R. Lounsbury (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1912), 480.[back]

36. Cynthia Barnett, aShortage in the Land of Plenty,a in Water Matters, ed. Tara Lohan (San Francisco: Alternet Books, 2010), 26.[back]

37. According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida paid $15.5 million in legal fees on the tristate water conflict between November 2001 and May 2010, with $11.7 million of that to lawyers at Hogan Lovells offices in Miami and Was.h.i.+ngton, DC. According to the Georgia Attorney Generalas Office, Georgia had spent $7.7 million through May 2010, $6.9 million of that to McKenna Long & Aldridge. The Atlanta Regional Commission reports that it paid another $7 million in legal fees, most to King & Spalding. The $30 million total does not include other cities or Alabama, whose governoras and attorney generalas offices did not respond to public-records requests.[back]

38. ABC News, video, aGeorgians Pray for Raina”Literally,a November 13, 2007.[back]

39. Ibid. Perdue is quoting Psalm 65 of the New King James version of the Bible, lines 9a”10.[back]

40. U.S. district judge Paul A. Magnuson, Memorandum and Order in re Tri-State Water Rights Litigation, Case No. 3:07-md-01, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 94.[back]

41. aGovernor Perdue Reflects on Years in Office,a Channel 2 Action News, Atlanta, December 28, 2010.[back]

42. aPet.i.tion for Reconsideration of Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202 (a) of the Clean Air Act,a EPA Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009a”0171, December 23, 2009.[back]

43. Harris Blackwood, aAre More Dams on the Flint the Answer?a Gainesville Times, May 4, 2008.[back]

44. Georgia Water Coalition, aWater for All Georgiaa (commercial, available on You Tube at /watch?v=uezMV9ri-LY/).[back]

45. Shaila Dewan, aGeorgia Claims a Sliver of the Tennessee River,a New York Times, February 22, 2008.[back]

46. Earth Covenant Ministry, aRiver of Life Project,a /node/15570/.[back]

53. Annin, The Great Lakes Water Wars, 193.[back]

54. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, aThe Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book,a mons/water%20 commons%20-%20web.pdf, 2.[back]

21. Data from the United Nations and the Council of Canadians.[back]