What is this about? Given the depradations from flooding I would have thought both of these states had more ground water than they know what to do with, hence the periodic flooding.
Georgia tried something like this a few years ago too...
Tennessee to Mississippi: I drink your milkshake!
Note this is a line from the movie “There will be blood”.
I would think groundwater is flowing from TN into MS.
TN is at a higher elevation.
ON average TN is 900 feet above sea level. MS only 300 feet.
Maybe MS should be paying TN. We’ll accept catfish as payment.
I figured the case would be thrown out over that “standing thing”. Please excuse my use of arcane terms like the one in quotes. LOL
After this has been litigated for over 16 years, SCOTUS made the right call on this one. At stake was the issue of interstate water rights. Mississippi and Tennessee share the prolific Memphis Sands aquifer (also known as the Sparta Aquifer in Mississippi) and claimed that Tennessee - or more specifically Memphis - was stealing their water. As a hydrogeologist, I can tell you that Mississippi’s position was not a winnable one, but they just kept on pushing this litigation until SCOTUS finally slapped them down. This will be, however, a precedent-setting decision for interstate water rights in the U.S., as there are a number of other large aquifers that straddle state lines, especially in the mid-west and it is likely this SCOTUS decision will be used as the basis for management of those shared aquifers.
........even a broken clock (John Roberts et al) is right twice a day.