We wash dishes, hands, vegetables, clothes, floors, cars, and windows with water. We water our yards, golf courses, gardens in office parks, and farms. Doctors wash for surgery with water, clean wounds with water, bathe feverish patients with water, run IVs with water. Water fills our swimming pools, fountains, fish tanks, recreation parks, and ice skating rinks. Water powers electric generators, cools machinery and engines.
Water is home to wildlife and life to crops.
We play in the water, travel on the water, relax by the water. All that water. That's a lot of water. Four primary water sources for a region of 3.5 million people. Eighteen agencies operate 32 water supply intakes in the Atlanta region.