Georgia Town Running Low on Water

Chris Sweigart

The water supply for the small town of Jefferson, Georgia is only weeks away from drying up.

The city?s reservoir is more than four feet below normal right now. It?s so low that silt and chemicals from the bottom are being processed through the water treatment facility.

The city is now getting its water from Jackson County and the city of Commerce. Without that water, Jefferson?s reservoir would be completely dry.

"The water here, if we had no other source of water, that would last us two, maybe three weeks at best. If we had nothing coming in," said Jeff Killip with Jefferson?s Public Works department.

The city is pushing conservation and has had a good response from its customers. They say the citizens of Jefferson have reduced water use by 25 percent.

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