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For a second day, CBS had Katie Couric anchor her newscast from Miami. Her Florida perspective allowed correspondent Kelly Cobiella to balance the Atlanta angle that has so far dominated coverage of the southeastern drought. All three networks covered the regional dispute over water from Lake Lanier from the Georgia point of view: ABC's Steve Osunsami (subscription required), CBS' Mark Strassmann and NBC's Martin Savidge all relayed complaints from metropolitan Atlanta of looming water rationing because the Army Corps of Engineers sends fresh water from the reservoir downstream to Alabama and Florida. Now Cobiella shows us the threat to an entire ecosystem if Atlanta consumes that water. Already increased salinity is depleting the Florida Panhandle's commercial oyster harvest. As salt water spreads upriver it is "killing the marshes that serve as nurseries for 90% of Apalachicola Bay's marine life."
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