disputes over water are becoming increasingly common, with both alabama and florida filing lawsuits and threatening injunctions to prevent georgia from taking too much water, mostly for metro atlanta. south carolina also threatened when a pipeline east to the savannah river was mentioned even informally. the state has now been ordered by a judge to reduce withdrawals from the chattahoochee south of lanier to 1970s levels within three years (2012), something that would create an immediate emergency water shortage if it were actually enforced.