Well, you got me to look that up out of curiosity. For the rest of you, it's the 80-20 rule. Assuming that 80% of our water use goes to industry, what exactly are you proposing? I'm guessing that we could save the most water by getting industry to cut back on water usage. That's a reasonable interim measure, but in the long run we need more water.

The real "killer" in my opinion is uncontrolled population growth, especially on the east coast, including the Atlanta area. That's also the main cause factor to our other shortages, such as crude oil.

At least with water, there is a long-term solution, although it would be expensive. Desalinization. Most of us who were in the military in the last 20 years or so have been to the middle east, and we got to see firsthand that Saudi Arabia in particular gets most of its fresh water from a huge desalinization plant that draws water from the Persian Gulf. I believe they use reverse osmosis. The bad news is that they have to pipe the water a couple of hundred miles across the desert.It's expensive, but the supply of sea water is virtually unlimited. We could do the same thing in this country, and probably will, sooner or later. Meanwhile, pray for rain!!