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Posted Sun May 25 2008: from Houston Chronicle:
Drought turning futures to dust http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1211728594
"APALACHICOLA BAY, FLA. — Longtime oysterman Keith Millender sees every shower taken or car washed in metropolitan Atlanta as a small threat to his family, which has harvested seafood from northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay for generations. The Apalachicola River — which carries water more than 300 miles from Georgia's Lake Lanier into the bay, providing the delicate balance of freshwater and saltwater oysters need to thrive — is running dry."
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