Quote Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
Actually not a bad idea. That's really the only place we're SUPPOSED to wash our cars right now anyway, right?



I have a big problem with this. Why should we suffer ourselves when this mussel may very well die off naturally soon enough anyway? So then, no mussels and no water too? Personally, we should think rationally. If we keep draining the only source of water to save some mussels, is it a smart decision? In my book it's assenine. Thousands of animals have become extinct over the years. We are still here and surviving without them. Why would some mussels be any different? Why would some owls? Why would some fish? I mean, we can live without mussels, but will die without water. How's saving them over us make any sense at all? It's not like they control vermin populations that eat our food supply, right? It's not like they could feed the hungry masses, right? They serve generally no public purpose, yet we are using the public's water supply to keep them alive while we all are asked to pee outside and not take showers. How's that make any common sense?

Because we can survive without luxury commodities. We can ultimately have water pumped in and have energy diverted towards us when that lake dries up. Those mussels need the water to survive. I can see your point in that they might die off naturally, but its hard to throw in the natural factor due to Buford Dam, Lake Lanier, and a lot of other man made obstructions that could throw a wrench in the gears of how mother nature's system works - and far be it from me being a biologist, but there is a possibility of those mussels having a significant impact on the ecosystem it lives in etc etc - so thats simply why, we have the means to still have water and power, but we also technically control a significant means of survival for a species