ABSTRACT
A FTER DECADES OF conflicting demands by competing water users, the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida attempted to negotiate an interstate water allocation formula for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) basin between 1997 and 2003 as part of a tri-state compact. The ACF case illustrates the lessons to be learned from the failure of interstate negotiations and the challenges to adaptive governance.
