ENRICHED LIVES: WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN MUCH
Engineering, quality compliance, and forward-thinking planning make it possible for lives in Chatham County to be so rich – for so many generations. It’s our turn to think of the next generations.
Although we drink water, wash, fish and swim in it, and cook with it, we nearly always overlook the special relationship it has with our lives. Droughts cause famines and floods cause death and disease. 
 Forefathers of our colony selected the Savannah River destination, in part, because of proximity to an enriched natural aquifer, the Atlantic Ocean and natural waterways. The colonial inter-coastal waterway was host to infamous plantations (like Bonaventure Cemetery and Wormsloe today) and world-traveling merchants and steamships; an international port from which cotton was exported and tea and fine linens were imported; river sports, crabbing, creek fishing and shrimp casting. Making Sassafras Tea or Root Beer are novelties today. However, poor water conditions long ago made water barely tolerable and often hazardous.
Today we have the knowledge and means to insure safe, generous water supplies. Shall we include the connoisseur? "Modern elites have agreed with their predecessors that the taste (can one say bouquet?) of a water really is important, and that through the drinking of fine waters one can cultivate one’s health in ways far more delicate than simply keeping one’s insides moist and avoiding cholera.” [Christopher Hamlin]
Georgia Rare Species and Natural Community Information. High priority waters for protecting aquatic biodiversity were identified as part of a larger effort to develop a comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy for Georgia. You can learn more about this strategy, also known as Georgia's Wildlife Action Plan, at the following link http://www.gadnr.org/cwcs/index.html.
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