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Climate change conference focuses on the Chattahoochee, solutions

Wildfires in Greenland. ‘Sunny day’ floods in Miami. Icebergs the size of small countries breaking from continents. Vanishing lakes and record high temperatures around the world. The global list of catastrophic impacts from climate change goes on and on.

But, is there evidence of climate change here in north Georgia – in our own backyards? The answer is a resounding yes. If not quite as dramatic (yet) as the accelerating environmental changes elsewhere, the impacts are still notable and increasingly affect the way we live and work.

More than four million people rely on the Chattahoochee River basin for drinking water, including 70 percent of the residents of metro Atlanta. As Georgia’s most heavilyused waterway, the Chattahoochee is essential for industries, power generation, wastewater assimilation, crop irrigation, recreation and more. The first-ever conference focused on climate