A legal dispute over water use now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court reveals that Georgia has a dirty little secret.

Big farm operations in the rural southern end of the state have been allowed to drastically increase irrigation with no real limits. As a result, no matter what the high court decides to do with a special master’s report siding with Georgia over Florida, the water war with neighboring states is not over.

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