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Social and Economic Benefits Justify Degradation of Georgia Lake Water
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2005.tb07460.x
Subject(s) - supreme court , degradation (telecommunications) , environmental degradation , social benefits , wastewater , environmental science , water resource management , hydrology (agriculture) , political science , environmental engineering , law , engineering , geotechnical engineering , chemistry , ecology , biology , telecommunications , tailings
The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled that a county's discharge of wastewater into a lake, which caused degradation of the water, was justifiable to provide necessary social or economic development.